Re: [PATCH] s2io: add PCI error recovery support

From: Linas Vepstas
Date: Fri Mar 16 2007 - 15:50:06 EST


On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 05:33:39PM -0500, Ramkrishna Vepa wrote:
> Comments on this patch -
>
> 1. device_close_flag is unused and is not required.

I'll submit a patch to strip this out sometime next week.

> 2. s2io_reset can fail to reset the device.

I thought I'd seen this occasionally, and its on my to-do list
to look into this further.

> Ideally s2io_reset should
> return a failure in this case (return is void now)

Would you care to provide a patch that did this? I could
experiment a bit, and try to do this myself; but I really
don't know this hardware, or this driver, that well.

--linas


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