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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: PCI warning on boot 3.8.0-rc1
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 17:36:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130204173610.18a31d24@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1360017684.11144.547.camel@bling.home>

On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:41:24 -0700
Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> wrote:

> +
> +	if (pci_is_pcie(parent) &&
> +	    (pci_pcie_type(parent) == PCI_EXP_TYPE_ROOT_PORT ||
> +	     pci_pcie_type(parent) == PCI_EXP_TYPE_DOWNSTREAM)) {
> +		pr_warn("WARNING: Your hardware is broken, device %s appears to be a\n Legacy PCI device attached directly to a PCIe device which is not a\n PCIe-to-PCI bridge.  Per section 7.8 of the PCI Express 3.0 spec, the\n PCI express capability structure is required for PCI express device\nfunctions.\n",
> +		        pci_name(pdev));

Too whiny!
Two short lines seems to be more the enough. Users can't do anything about
hardware not following spec. Put any outher stuff into comments.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-05  1:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20130116143853.339dd89b@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net>
2013-01-30 21:59 ` PCI warning on boot 3.8.0-rc1 Bjorn Helgaas
2013-02-04 18:36   ` Stephen Hemminger
     [not found]     ` <20130204103645.38ae2d5e-We1ePj4FEcvRI77zikRAJc56i+j3xesD0e7PPNI6Mm0@public.gmane.org>
2013-02-04 20:28       ` Alex Williamson
2013-02-04 20:30         ` Stephen Hemminger
     [not found]           ` <20130204123041.31e402df-We1ePj4FEcvRI77zikRAJc56i+j3xesD0e7PPNI6Mm0@public.gmane.org>
2013-02-04 20:36             ` Alex Williamson
     [not found]         ` <1360009684.11144.539.camel-xdHQ/5r00wBBDLzU/O5InQ@public.gmane.org>
2013-02-04 22:41           ` Alex Williamson
2013-02-05  1:36             ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2013-02-06 15:49             ` Stephen Hemminger
     [not found]               ` <20130206074900.02f04e3f-We1ePj4FEcvRI77zikRAJc56i+j3xesD0e7PPNI6Mm0@public.gmane.org>
2013-02-06 15:58                 ` Alex Williamson
2013-02-12  4:15                   ` Alex Williamson
2013-02-12 18:33                     ` Stephen Hemminger
2013-04-10 22:36                   ` Bjorn Helgaas
     [not found]                     ` <20130410223650.GA6109-hpIqsD4AKlfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2013-04-11  0:01                       ` Alex Williamson
2013-04-11 17:23                         ` Bjorn Helgaas
     [not found]                           ` <CAErSpo4Nn9wsoaNxKZbHfU79w1t9C9Y3iHei5_bJpPjRZHSAow-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2013-04-15 19:12                             ` Alex Williamson
     [not found]                               ` <1366053154.2918.180.camel-xdHQ/5r00wBBDLzU/O5InQ@public.gmane.org>
2013-04-15 19:29                                 ` Bjorn Helgaas

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