Re: [PATCH v4 1/5] PCI/ERR: Remove misleading TODO regarding kernel panic

From: Manivannan Sadhasivam
Date: Fri May 09 2025 - 02:51:19 EST


On Fri, May 09, 2025 at 02:11:00PM +0800, Ethan Zhao wrote:
>
>
> On 5/8/2025 3:10 PM, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> > A PCI device is just another peripheral in a system. So failure to
> > recover it, must not result in a kernel panic. So remove the TODO which
> > is quite misleading.
> >
> Could you explain what the result would be if A PCI device failed to
> recovery from FATAL/NON_FATAL aer error or DPC event ? what else
> better choice we have as next step ? or just saying "failed" then
> go ahead ?
>

If the recovery is not possible (with device,bus,host reset), then there is
nothing could be done.

- Mani

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