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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] be2net: Ignore spurious UE indication from NIC
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:04:13 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@emulex.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 11:36:20 -0500

> Ignore spurious UE indication seen on some platforms.
> Consider the error as un-recoverable only when the bits
> stay high during second sampling.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@emulex.com>

Treating uncorrectable errors as spurious seems like an invitation
for hard to track down data corruption to me.

You'll need to come up with a more sophisticated test for
spurious other than "happens more than once" before I'm willing
to subject the entire world to this kind of potential problem.