On 05/10/2017 03:11 PM, Timur Tabi wrote:
> On 05/10/2017 04:47 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>> AFAIR kexec takes care of shutting down network devices explicitly
>> (unless instructed otherwise with -x/--no-ifdown) so this may be where
>> this is coming from.
>>
>> Reading through
On 05/10/2017 04:47 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> AFAIR kexec takes care of shutting down network devices explicitly
> (unless instructed otherwise with -x/--no-ifdown) so this may be where
> this is coming from.
>
> Reading through drivers/base/core.c it does not appear that ->remove()
> is
On 05/10/2017 01:17 PM, Timur Tabi wrote:
> On 05/09/2017 02:06 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>> On 05/09/2017 11:51 AM, Timur Tabi wrote:
>
>>> Is it possible that the network stack detects a kexec and automatically
>>> stops all network devices?
>>
>> No. why would it? However the device driver
On 05/09/2017 02:06 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 05/09/2017 11:51 AM, Timur Tabi wrote:
>> Is it possible that the network stack detects a kexec and automatically
>> stops all network devices?
>
> No. why would it? However the device driver model does call into your
> driver's remove
On 05/09/2017 11:51 AM, Timur Tabi wrote:
> On 05/09/2017 01:46 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>> A good test case for exercising a .shutdown() function is kexec'ing a
>> new kernel for instance.
>
> I tried that. I run iperf in one window while launching kexec in another.
> Even without a shutdown
On 05/09/2017 01:46 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> A good test case for exercising a .shutdown() function is kexec'ing a
> new kernel for instance.
I tried that. I run iperf in one window while launching kexec in another.
Even without a shutdown function, network traffic appear to halt on its own
On 05/09/2017 09:58 AM, Timur Tabi wrote:
> I'm trying to add a platform_driver.shutdown function to my Ethernet driver
> (drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/emac/*), but I can't find any definitive
> information as to what a network driver shutdown callback is supposed to do.
> I also don't know what
