Most I/O subsystems use the eft DE and rules sets to diagnose device and device driver related problems. A standard set of ereports, listed in Reporting Standard I/O Controller Errors, has been specified for PCI leaf devices. Accompanying these ereports are eft diagnosis rules that take the telemetry and identify the associated device fault. Drivers that generate these ereports do not need to deliver any additional diagnosis software or eft rules.
The detection and generation of these ereports produces the following fault events:
A hardware fault on the PCI bus
A hardware fault within the device
A hardware fault in the device or a defect in the driver that causes the device to send an invalid request
A hardware fault in the device that causes the driver not to respond to a valid request
A hardware fault on the link
The link going down so that a device cannot respond to a valid request
A hardware fault within the device
A hardware fault in the device or a defect in the driver that causes the device to send an invalid request
A hardware fault in the device causing it not to respond to a valid request