Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 May 2003 10:34:42 -0700 (PDT) | From | Patrick Mochel <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.69-mm5: reverting i8259-shutdown.patch |
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> Pat what do you say to some late shutdown callbacks? I'll drop you a > patch sometime tommorrow.
Bah. It would work, but it's a hack. We'll get caught in a game similar to the leap-frogging initcalls. In fact, we could just get really twisted and define various levels of exitcalls. [ Or, do them implicitly with some linkser-section-fu by calling the modules' exit functions in the reverse order in which they were initialized, but that's another story. ]
I just think that system level devices need to be treated specially in every case. They just don't work as normal devices because of the ordering issue. We can keep a separate list of them and deal with them explicitly after regular devices. It's not that bad of a change, but will take a few days, unless someone wants to take a stab at it..
-pat
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