Re: [PATCH 1/2] pci/aer: Add bus flag to skip source id matching

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On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 02:23:44PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 05:26:10PM -0600, Jon Derrick wrote:
> > Allow root port buses to choose to skip source id matching when finding
> > the faulting device. Certain root port devices may return an incorrect
> > source id and recommend to scan child device registers for aer
> > notifications.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jon Derrick <jonathan.derrick@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Applied both of these to pci/host-vmd for v4.9, thanks!
Thanks!

> 
> I think I might even go farther and remove the "nosourceid" module
> parameter.  Per Documentation/PCI/pcieaer-howto.txt, it's to work
> around broken hardware, but it's not otherwise documented.  With the
> flag you're adding, we could add quirks for that broken hardware,
> which would be far better.  I doubt anybody's actually using that
> module parameter.
Yes I'll agree that it makes more sense to call out the nonconforming hardware and have their quirk/fix inbox
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