linux-kernel - Re: kexec: device shutdown vs. remove

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Date:	Mon, 25 Jul 2016 10:28:56 +1000
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Joel Stanley <joel.stanley@....ibm.com>,
	Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@....ibm.com>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: kexec: device shutdown vs. remove

On Sun, 2016-07-24 at 16:36 -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > A lot of drivers we care about are modular. But maybe the right
> > approach is to do something like remove() if it exist and
> shutdown() if
> > it doesn't ? Or a new callback for kexec ? quiesce() ?
> 
> Perhaps remove if shutdown does not exist.  What this really takes is
> someone to care enough to sort through this mess.

Right, I have a test patch doing just that which I'm about to start
testing internally.

Cheers,
Ben.