Re: [PATCH] call drv->shutdown at rmmod

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

> Even if kexec is not brought into the picture the devices need to be quiesed on
> reboot.  On x86 and probably other architectures there are 2 ways a reboot can go.
> 1) The firmware when it regains control toggles the motherboard reset
>    line resetting all of the devices, so nothing we do really makes a difference.
> 2) The firmware when it regains control tweaks a few things and
>    pretends it was never out of control, and restarts the boot
>    process.
> 
> When the firmware does not toggle the motherboard reset line during a
> reboot the firmware case is exactly equivalent to the kexec one.
> 
> So shutdown needs to quiese things.

Yup, my point was mostly to say that quiescing for shutdown and putting
in low power state are 2 different things, and that the "shutdown" name
for the callback is a bit misleading...

Ben.