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Subject: Re: [lkcd-general] Re: [lkcd-devel] Re: What's left over.
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 09:38, Richard J Moore wrote:
> 
> 
> > 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.

I'd rather have a set of clearly defined notifiers so that I don't have
to know about priority, just when I want to act

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