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| From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: kexec: device shutdown vs. remove |
| Date | 2016-07-24 15:20 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <rYru1-8mY-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <rYcbD-7kW-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <rYjZv-3Nk-7@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
On Sat, 2016-07-23 at 22:18 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > I suspect that using (or depending on) the remove function may not be feasible > anymore after the recent effort by Paul Gortmaker to make drivers explicitly > non-modular if they are only configurable as boolean. In many cases, this > involved dropping remove functions. 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() ? 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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