From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263019AbUG1TpD (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jul 2004 15:45:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262927AbUG1TpD (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jul 2004 15:45:03 -0400 Received: from e2.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.102]:62934 "EHLO e2.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263019AbUG1To7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jul 2004 15:44:59 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 12:42:48 -0700 From: "Martin J. Bligh" To: Jesse Barnes , "Eric W. Biederman" cc: Andrew Morton , Keith Owens , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Suparna Bhattacharya , fastboot@osdl.org Subject: Re: Announce: dumpfs v0.01 - common RAS output API Message-ID: <35250000.1091043768@flay> In-Reply-To: <200407281106.17626.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> References: <16734.1090513167@ocs3.ocs.com.au> <200407280903.37860.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> <200407281106.17626.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.1.2 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >> > I think this could end up being a good thing. It gives more people a >> > stake in making sure that driver shutdown() routines work well. >> >> Which actually is one of the items open for discussion currently. >> For kexec on panic do we want to run the shutdown() routines? > > We'll have to do something about incoming dma traffic and other stuff that the > devices might be doing. Maybe a arch specific callout to do some chipset > stuff? I vote for sleeping for 5 seconds ;-) Should kill off most of it ... M.