Re: [Fastboot] Re: Announce: dumpfs v0.01 - common RAS output API

Andrew Morton
2004-07-28T20:35:13Z

ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
>
> "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com> writes:
> > We discussed this at kernel summit a bit - it'd be safer to make the devices
> > clear down on boot up, rather than shutdown, if possible ... less work to
> > do on the unstable base.
>
> Agreed, but I think for starters we should capture the low hanging fruit
> by calling the shutdown method and then increasingly harden the
> code by performing less in the kernel that panics and more in the
> cleanup kernel.

We really don't want to be calling driver shutdown functions from a crashed
kernel.