On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 11:03:45AM -0600, James Bottomley wrote: > > I don't understand please explain. > > What does a driver need to do if it needs a consistent shutdown retine? > > module or built in? unload or shutdown? > > It needs to register a reboot notifier, which gdth does.
Well, for crappy legacy driver that's the way, but it's not really recommended. As soon as a driver uses the proper driver models, e.g. gdth for pci using Jeff's pci hotplug patches it can just implement the ->shutdown method that is called before shutdown/kexec and can do the right thing. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
