Re: [PATCH] devexit fixes in i82092.c

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>]

Linus Torvalds wrote:

>On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
>>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?
>>
>
>Ideally we should, yes. Although if we really turn off power, it doesn't 
>much matter.
>
It matters to a software engineering wonk like me :)   I know it 
-really- doesn't matter, but from a theoretical perspective, if we are 
trying to achieve the "everything is hotpluggable" model, poweroff via 
device tree will naturally fall out from that.

If it makes it easier for some, I consider poweroff not as an act unto 
itself, but as a transition to state D3cold. :)  And since we will 
eventually be able to handle transition to similar low-power states, we 
might as well follow similar/the same code paths.

>>Further, I wonder if the reboot/shutdown notifiers can be replaced with 
>>device tree control over those events...
>>
>
>This is what I want. Those reboot/shutdown notifiers are completely and 
>utterly buggy, and cannot sanely handle any kind of device hierarchy.
>
yep

    Jeff