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Date:   Fri, 26 Mar 2021 15:54:09 +0300
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
To:     Krzysztof =?utf-8?Q?Wilczy=C5=84ski?= <kw@linux.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] PCI/sysfs: Allow userspace to query and set device
 reset mechanism
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On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 10:18:25AM +0100, Krzysztof Wilczyński wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> [...]
> 
> Aside of the sysfs interface, would this new functionality also require
> anything to be overridden at boot time via passing some command-line
> arguments?  Not sure how relevant such thing would be to device, but,
> whatnot reset, though.

This is per-device property and can't be universally correct like kernel
command-line arguments. I don't think that we need to add such functionality.

> 
> I am curious whether there would be a need for anything like that.

I prefer not.

> 
> Krzysztof