From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Anders Gustafsson <andersg@0x63.nu>,
arjanv@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mochel@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] devexit fixes in i82092.c
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 21:25:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C92AD1F.30909@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0203151659060.1379-100000@home.transmeta.com>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, Anders Gustafsson wrote:
>
>>this patch fixes "undefined reference to `local symbols in discarded
>>section .text.exit'" linking error.
>>
>
>Looking more at this, I actually think that the _real_ fix is to call all
>drivers exit functions at kernel shutdown, and not discard the exit
>section when linking into the tree.
>
>That, together with the device tree, automatically gives us the
>_correct_ shutdown sequence, soemthing we don't have right now.
>
>Anybody willing to look into this, and get rid of that __devexit_p()
>thing?
>
(thinking vaguely long-term)
I wonder if mochel already code for this, or has thought about this...
Just like suspend, IMO we ideally should use the device tree to
shutdown the system, agreed?
Further, I wonder if the reboot/shutdown notifiers can be replaced with
device tree control over those events...
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-16 2:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-16 0:57 [PATCH] devexit fixes in i82092.c Anders Gustafsson
2002-03-16 1:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-03-16 2:25 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2002-03-16 7:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-03-16 7:51 ` Keith Owens
2002-03-16 8:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-03-16 9:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-03-16 9:50 ` Keith Owens
2002-03-25 19:15 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-03-16 8:51 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-03-16 17:35 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-16 17:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-03-25 19:19 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-03-16 9:40 ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-03-22 15:47 ` Pavel Machek
2002-03-16 10:32 ` David Woodhouse
2002-03-16 19:27 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-03-16 21:00 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-16 22:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-03-16 22:28 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-16 22:16 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-03-16 22:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-03-16 23:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-03-16 23:15 ` Dave Jones
2002-03-21 15:12 ` Pavel Machek
2002-03-25 19:02 ` Patrick Mochel
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2002-03-24 23:36 Alexander Stohr
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