On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 03:12:51PM -0600, Mike Miller (OS Dev) wrote: > Patch 2/2 > > This patch adds reboot_notifier support to cciss. Changes in firmware make > this patch > essential. Without this patch there may be valid data left in the > controller's battery > backed write cache (BBWC) on shutdown. We found out the hard way that the > kernel does > not call our cleanup routines on shutdown or reboot. It seems that only rmmod > calls > the cleanup. > Please consider this for inclusion. >
NAK. This should be using the shutdown method in struct pci_driver instead. I really wish we wouldn't export the reboot_notifier so people don't repeat this mistake over and over again.. - 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/
