Re: Patch: linux-2.5.42/kernel/sys.c - warm reboot should not suspend devices

Eric W. Biederman
2002-10-17T09:04:34Z

"Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com> writes:

After having looked at it, device_shutdown is correct enough and
close enough to what I need, that I no longer care about the exact details.
Just so long as sys_reboot calls always calls it, and kexec can call it.

If you can talk someone into improving it's implementation that is fine
with me. As I find drivers that are causing problems problems because they
won't shut up I will point the driver authors in the direction of whatever
the current kernel api is.

Eric