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> It would take a special hook that ran after the notifiers, and
> device_shutdown.  At least in the normal case running what shutdown
> code we can is fairly important.  And hooking the notifier lists
> would not give a guarantee of going last.

Kernel Hooks would help here - that has a priority mechanism.

Richard

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