Re: [PATCH] devexit fixes in i82092.c

David Woodhouse
2002-03-16T10:33:48Z

torvalds@transmeta.com said:
> Ideally we should, yes. Although if we really turn off power, it
> doesn't much matter.

But we might just be rebooting, not turning off power. And in that case we
may want to ensure devices are returned to a sane state. Like ensuring that
the CPU startup vector is pointing at a flash chip which is in _read_ mode,
not returning status words.

Yes, it happens. I was pondering a reboot notifier but didn't like that much
so was ignoring the problem for now.

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