Re: [PATCH] PPC64: EEH Recovery

2005-01-20 Thread Paul Mackerras
Linas Vepstas writes: > > 2. I don't see why the device nodes for the PCI subtree being reset > >would go away, and thus I don't see the need for your eeh_cfg_tree > >struct. > > Its not the reset, its the hot-plug remove. The hot plug code assumes > that you are going to physically remo

Re: [PATCH] PPC64: EEH Recovery

2005-01-20 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 05:06:05PM +1100, Paul Mackerras was heard to remark: > Linas Vepstas writes: > > > p.s. It was not clear to me if the EEH patch previously sent > > (6 January 2005, same subject line) will be wending its way into > > the main Torvalds kernel tree, or not. I hadn't real

Re: [PATCH] PPC64: EEH Recovery

2005-01-20 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 05:06:05PM +1100, Paul Mackerras was heard to remark: > Linas Vepstas writes: > > > p.s. It was not clear to me if the EEH patch previously sent > > (6 January 2005, same subject line) will be wending its way into > > the main Torvalds kernel tree, or not. I hadn't rea

Re: [PATCH] PPC64: EEH Recovery

2005-01-19 Thread Nathan Fontenot
Paul Mackerras wrote: 5. AFAICS userland will get an unplug notification for the device, but nothing to indicate that is due to an EEH slot isolation event. I think userland should be told about EEH events. Currently there is a way for userland to determine if a hotplug event they receive i

Re: [PATCH] PPC64: EEH Recovery

2005-01-18 Thread Paul Mackerras
Linas Vepstas writes: > p.s. It was not clear to me if the EEH patch previously sent > (6 January 2005, same subject line) will be wending its way into > the main Torvalds kernel tree, or not. I hadn't really gotten > confirmation one way or another. I'm not really totally happy with it yet,

Re: [PATCH] PPC64: EEH Recovery

2005-01-17 Thread Linas Vepstas
Andrew, The attached file describes PCI bus EEH "Extended Error Handling" concepts and operation; could you drop this into the kernel documentation tree, at linux-2.6/Documentation/powerpc/eeh-pci-error-recovery.txt ? Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --linas p.s. It was not c