Re: [PATCH 7/7] ppc64: EEH Halt if bad drivers spin in error condition

[Doug Maxey]

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 20:02:28 CDT, linas wrote:
>
>07-eeh-spin-counter.patch
>
>One an EEH event is triggers, all further I/O to a device is blocked (until
>reset).  Bad device drivers may end up spinning in their interrupt handlers, 
>trying to read an interrupt status register that will never change state.
>This patch moves that spin counter to a per-device structure, and adds
>some diagnostic prints to help locate the bad driver.
>

Which struct gets the element?

++doug

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