With commit [1] upstream that enables AER reporting by default for all PCIe
devices, the documentation for pcie_enable_pcie_error_reporting() is no
longer necessary. Remove references to the helper function.
[1]: commit f26e58bf6f54 ("PCI/AER: Enable error reporting when AER is native")
Suggested-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/PCI/pcieaer-howto.rst | 18 ------------------
1 file changed, 18 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/PCI/pcieaer-howto.rst b/Documentation/PCI/pcieaer-howto.rst
index 0b36b9ebfa4b..a82802795a06 100644
--- a/Documentation/PCI/pcieaer-howto.rst
+++ b/Documentation/PCI/pcieaer-howto.rst
@@ -135,15 +135,6 @@ hierarchy and links. These errors do not include any device specific
errors because device specific errors will still get sent directly to
the device driver.
-Configure the AER capability structure
---------------------------------------
-
-AER aware drivers of PCI Express component need change the device
-control registers to enable AER. They also could change AER registers,
-including mask and severity registers. Helper function
-pci_enable_pcie_error_reporting could be used to enable AER. See
-section 3.3.
-
Provide callbacks
-----------------
@@ -214,15 +205,6 @@ to mmio_enabled.
helper functions
----------------
-::
-
- int pci_enable_pcie_error_reporting(struct pci_dev *dev);
-
-pci_enable_pcie_error_reporting enables the device to send error
-messages to root port when an error is detected. Note that devices
-don't enable the error reporting by default, so device drivers need
-call this function to enable it.
-
::
int pci_disable_pcie_error_reporting(struct pci_dev *dev);
