Re: kexec: device shutdown vs. remove

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From	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Subject	Re: kexec: device shutdown vs. remove
Date	Mon, 25 Jul 2016 02:40:01 +0200
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On Sun, 2016-07-24 at 16:36 -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > A lot of drivers we care about are modular. But maybe the right
> > approach is to do something like remove() if it exist and
> shutdown() if
> > it doesn't ? Or a new callback for kexec ? quiesce() ?
> 
> Perhaps remove if shutdown does not exist.  What this really takes is
> someone to care enough to sort through this mess.

Right, I have a test patch doing just that which I'm about to start
testing internally.

Cheers,
Ben.

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kexec: device shutdown vs. remove Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> - 2016-07-23 23:00 +0200
  Re: kexec: device shutdown vs. remove Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2016-07-24 07:20 +0200
    Re: kexec: device shutdown vs. remove Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> - 2016-07-24 15:20 +0200
      Re: kexec: device shutdown vs. remove ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) - 2016-07-25 00:00 +0200
        Re: kexec: device shutdown vs. remove Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> - 2016-07-25 02:40 +0200
  Re: kexec: device shutdown vs. remove ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) - 2016-07-24 07:40 +0200
    Re: kexec: device shutdown vs. remove Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> - 2016-07-24 15:20 +0200
      Re: kexec: device shutdown vs. remove ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) - 2016-07-24 23:50 +0200

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