Re: [PATCH 20/22] PCI Error Recovery: e100 network device driver

[linas <linas@austin.ibm.com>]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 05:10:56PM -0700, Greg KH was heard to remark:
> On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 06:57:29PM -0500, linas wrote:
> > +config E100_EEH_RECOVERY
> > +	bool "Enable PCI bus error recovery"
> > +	depends on E100 && PPC_PSERIES
> > +   help
> > +      If you say Y here, the driver will be able to recover from
> > +      PCI bus errors on many PowerPC platforms. IBM pSeries users
> > +      should answer Y.
> 
> Why make a config option for this at all?  Who would turn it off?

I wanted to have this turned off for anyone who didn't have 
hardware capable of supporting this, and didn't really think 
about how to hide this from the menu.  I guess its best to
just plain hide this, keep the menus from getting cluttered.

> > @@ -2661,6 +2731,9 @@
> >  	.resume =       e100_resume,
> >  #endif
> >  	.shutdown =	e100_shutdown,
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_E100_EEH_RECOVERY
> > +	.err_handler = &e100_err_handler,
> > +#endif /* CONFIG_E100_EEH_RECOVERY */
> 
> No, don't put #ifdefs in the middle of a structure, remember we made
> err_handler always present in the .h file for a reason...

OK.

I'll send revised patches patches tommorrw, hiding the config, and 
removing the ifdef.

--linas