Re: [RFC&PATCH 2/2] PCI Error Recovery (readX_check)

From: Grant Grundler
Date: Wed Aug 25 2004 - 12:10:15 EST


On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 02:28:10PM +0900, Hidetoshi Seto wrote:
> + bool "PCI device error recovery"
> + depends on PCI

depends on PCI && EXPERIMENTAL

> + ---help---
> + By default, the device driver hardly recovers from PCI errors. When
> + this feature is available, the special io interface are provided
> + from the kernel.

May I suggest an alternate text?
Saying Y provides PCI infrastructure to recover from some PCI errors.
Currently, very few PCI drivers actually implement this.
See Documentation/pci-errors.txt for a description of the
infrastructure provided.

I'm still digesting the rest of the patch.

grant
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