Re: aacraid controller hangs if kernel uses non-default ASPM policy

Matthew Garrett
2011-11-11T13:11:49Z

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 12:27:55PM +0000, James Bottomley wrote:

> The next question is: is the driver the correct place? This sounds like
> a PCIe Link Power Management blacklist set ... which might need updating
> on the fly ... might we need a user knob for this (like we have for the
> SCSI black/white list)?

The only thing that knows whether any given piece of hardware is broken
here is the hardware-specific driver. There's already a user knob for
this, but some devices will fall over the moment the hardware is enabled
if the ASPM state is broken which makes it more difficult to fix up that
way.

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