Re: [PATCH 4/5] acpi, nfit: support "map failed" dimms

From: Kani, Toshimitsu
Date: Mon Apr 17 2017 - 14:16:42 EST


On Fri, 2017-04-14 at 09:58 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> Stop requiring dimms be successfully mapped into a
> system-physical-address range. For provisioning and hardware
> remediation purposes the kernel should account for failed devices in
> sysfs. If possible it should still allow management commands to be
> sent to the device.
>
> Reported-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Linda Knippers <linda.knippers@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>

Tested the "map failed" condition with HPE NVDIMMs.

Tested-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxxx>

Thanks Dan!
-Toshi