On 10/13/2017 05:37 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote:

I really dislike this.

You're basically saying the kernel can't work out how to get a device
working, so let's leave it up to the user.

Oh, it was never my intention to say such blasphemy :)
It meant to be just a debug option to help the users, specifically the
ones debugging drivers, to try using a hammer to recover bad devices! To
this issue that I mentioned as an example, the fix specifically goes in
the FW of the adapter.

Anyway, since you really dislike it, let's drop it, no big deal!
Cheers,


Guilherme

The driver should be fixed to detect that the device is not responding
and request a reset.

cheers