Sorry for late. On 12/09/2016 10:37 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Fri, 9 Dec 2016 14:37:47 +0800 > Cao jin <caoj.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I am little confused too, even not sure if we are talking the same >> *fatal error*, I am talking the fatal error defined in PCI Express spec, >> chapter 6.2.2.2.1: > > Therein lies my original discomfort with the change; it didn't seem to > make sense to talk about recovering from a fatal error. Perhaps making > it "is done whenever a fatal error (as defined in section 6.2.2.2.1) has > been detected that can be "solved" by resetting the link" or something > like that to make it clear how the term is being used? > I find that the .link_reset callback of struct pci_error_handlers isn't called by anyone(if I didn't miss anything), and just a few drivers implement this callback, and their implementation seems meaningless. And the reset_link() provided by aer driver seems is a different thing with .link_reset callback. So I am guessing this patch probably is not quite suitable, and the doc maybe need update totally. -- Sincerely, Cao jin -- 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