From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 10:28:56 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1469406536.8568.264.camel@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d1m2hg5i.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org>
On Sun, 2016-07-24 at 16:36 -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > 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.
Right, I have a test patch doing just that which I'm about to start
testing internally.
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-25 0:30 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
2016-07-24 21:36 ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-07-25 0:28 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
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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