Thanks Konrad for your response. Please see below for my comments.
Well, that's more a question to Konrad as the maintainer.
Personally I'd prefer just "reset", as "pci" is redundant and "bus"
Can't do 'reset'.
Why?
B/c I forgot that this attribute is not per device, but on the module
sub-directory:
/sys/bus/pci/drivers/pciback/do_flr
It can be indeed called 'reset'.
Good. We will rename sysfs attribute from "do_flr" to "reset"
doesn't cover the slot variant.
'bus_reset' sounds lovely?
Lovely sounding or not, it may end up misleading, and even more so
if - like asked for - FLR would be tried first.
Fair enough. Reset should work then.
So, we will use the following sequence to reset the requested
device/function.
- FLR (as first option)
- BUS/SLOT reset (as fall-back option) if FLR is not supported or any
issue with FLR
Cheers
GOVINDA