On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 03:06:01PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote: > > I took a look at the sysfs triggered pci reset function and don't see any way > > that the controlling device driver ever gets to be involved in this reset. > > If code outside the ipr driver were to reset the adapter, the adapter firmware > > would be left in an uninitialized state and until scsi core starts timing > > out ops and driving EH, the card would be unusable. I can't imagine the > > ipr driver is unique in this. > > Right, that's why a PCI core service is needed for coordination. > > Jan But why do we want to trigger reset through sysfs while the driver runs? > -- > Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1 > Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
