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I guess it's safe/normal to detach an MTD device from UBI before rebooting ?

I'm asking because detaching is the only way to shut down the UBI
background task (ubi_bgt0d). I do not want this task to start a flash erase
operation or whatsoever just before the actual reboot takes place.