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| From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: kexec: device shutdown vs. remove |
| Date | 2016-07-25 02:40 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <rYC65-69G-9@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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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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