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On Mer, 2004-07-28 at 19:00, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Which actually is one of the items open for discussion currently.
> For kexec on panic do we want to run the shutdown() routines?

Probably or you may not be able to recover some devices. In some cases
simply turning off the master bit might be enough however.