Messages in this thread | | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | Sun, 24 Jul 2016 16:36:57 -0500 | Subject | Re: kexec: device shutdown vs. remove |
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> writes:
> 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() ?
Perhaps remove if shutdown does not exist. What this really takes is someone to care enough to sort through this mess.
Eric
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