Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]> writes: > On Sat, 2016-07-23 at 22:18 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: >> I suspect that using (or depending on) the remove function may not be >> feasible >> anymore after the recent effort by Paul Gortmaker to make drivers explicitly >> non-modular if they are only configurable as boolean. In many cases, this >> involved dropping remove functions. > > 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. Eric
