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SubjectRe: [PATCH] PCIe AER: honor ACPI HEST FIRMWARE FIRST mode
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 04:11:28PM +0900, Kenji Kaneshige wrote:
> In the current AER driver implementation, correctable, non-fatal,
> fatal, unsupported request reporting enable bits in PCIe device
> control register can be changed by adapter card drivers through pci_enable_pcie_error_reporting() or pci_disable_pcie_error_reporting()
> APIs, regardless of _OSC evaluation result.
>
> I'm not sure, but I guess you might need to prevent those bits
> from being changed in the Firmware First mode.

You are correct. Thank you for the catch. I don't know if we can
prevent changing these bits via the raw operations, but we can prevent
them in these functions. Patch to follow does so.

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Matt Domsch
Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux


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