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SubjectRe: 2.5.69-mm5: reverting i8259-shutdown.patch

> 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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