From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Joel Stanley <joel.stanley@au1.ibm.com>,
Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@au1.ibm.com>,
Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: kexec: device shutdown vs. remove
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2016 23:13:08 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1469365988.8568.255.camel@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160724051810.GA7663@roeck-us.net>
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() ?
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-24 13:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-23 20:51 kexec: device shutdown vs. remove Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2016-07-24 5:18 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-07-24 13:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2016-07-24 21:36 ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-07-25 0:28 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2016-07-24 5:24 ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-07-24 13:15 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2016-07-24 21:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
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