On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 07:08:30PM +0530, Vidya Sagar wrote: > Many PCIe device drivers save the configuration state of their respective > devices during probe and restore the same when their 'slot_reset' hook > is called through PCIe Error Recovery System. > If the system has a change in ASPM policy after the driver's probe is > called and before error event occurred, 'slot_reset' hook restores the > PCIe configuration state to what it was at the time of probe but not with > what it was just before the occurrence of the error event. > This effectively leads to a mismatch in the ASPM configuration between > the device and its upstream parent device. > This patch addresses that issue by updating the saved configuration state > of the device with the latest info whenever there is a change w.r.t ASPM > policy. Please use blank lines between paragraphs. Inferring "new paragraph" from "last line was shorter than usual" is error-prone and hard to read. Omit "this patch" (that part is obvious) and use imperative mood: https://chris.beams.io/posts/git-commit/ https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?id=v6.0#n94
