Subject: Re: [PATCH] ixgb: add PCI Error recovery callbacks

From: Auke Kok <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 08:49:27 -0700

Zhang, Yanmin wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 00:26, Linas Vepstas wrote:
>> Adds PCI Error recovery callbacks to the Intel 10-gigabit ethernet
>> ixgb device driver. Lightly tested, works.
>
> Both pci_disable_device and ixgb_down would access the device. It doesn't
> follow Documentation/pci-error-recovery.txt that error_detected shouldn't do
> any access to the device.

Moreover, it was Linas who wrote this documentation in the first place :)

Linas, have you tried moving the e1000_down() call into the _reset part? I 
suspect that the e1000_reset() in there however may already be sufficient.

Cheers,

Auke