On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 11:56:02AM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 02:15:09AM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote: > > On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 05:27:24PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > > Ah, you're right, sorry I missed that. Dispensing with the SERDES > > > details would make this more obvious. > > > > Lesson learned. When I had just gotten out of college, every time I asked > > the coworkers in my company what they're up to, I was amazed by them just > > proceeding to tell me all the nitty gritty details of what they're doing > > and debugging, like I was supposed to understand or care for that matter. > > "Dude, can't you just paint the high level idea without using dorky words?" > > Now I'm one of them... > > Haha :) Communication is the hardest part! I know... > What bad things happen without this patch? It's in the commit title: probing the entire device (PCI device!!!) is skipped if function 0 has status = "disabled". Aka PCIe functions 1, 2, 3, 4, ...
