Assuming it is worth it to split remove into 2 parts, we need
the following so rmmod calls ->shutdown.  Otherwise we will get
code duplication in the drivers.

And then we need all of the patches that split remove into 2 parts,
in the drivers.

Eric

diff -uNr linux-2.5.44/drivers/base/bus.c linux-2.5.44.shutdown/drivers/base/bus.c
--- linux-2.5.44/drivers/base/bus.c    Sat Oct 19 00:57:58 2002
+++ linux-2.5.44.shutdown/drivers/base/bus.c    Sun Oct 20 03:44:46 2002
@@ -164,6 +164,8 @@
        if (drv) {
                list_del_init(&dev->driver_list);
                devclass_remove_device(dev);
+               if (drv->shutdown && device_present(drv))
+                       drv->shutdown(dev);
                if (drv->remove)
                        drv->remove(dev);
                dev->driver = NULL;
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