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Date:	Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:08:30 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	"Mike Miller (OS Dev)" <mikem@...rdog.cca.cpqcorp.net>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, akpm@...l.org,
	jens.axboe@...cle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch 2/2] cciss: add shutdown support (replaces reboot notifier)

On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 03:56:11PM -0600, Mike Miller (OS Dev) wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 09:45:02PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 03:38:45PM -0600, Mike Miller (OS Dev) wrote:
> > > Patch 2/2
> > > 
> > > This adds support for struct pci_driver shutdown and negates the previous NAK'ed
> > > reboot_notifier patch. It's much easier, wish I had know about this before. Thanks to
> > > Christoph for pointing this out.
> > 
> > Just sondering, where should we have put information about this so driver
> > writers/maintainers like you would have found it easily?
> > 
> Excellent question. I wish I had a good answer. It's pretty difficult to monitor
> everything going on, especially when I also have to consider HP's schedule and those
> of our partners. 

It is properly documented in Documentation/pci.txt as to how to do
this...

thanks,

greg k-h
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