Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261296AbVDZEAT (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2005 00:00:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261301AbVDZEAT (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2005 00:00:19 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:27078 "EHLO gate.crashing.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261296AbVDZEAM (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2005 00:00:12 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI: Add pci shutdown ability From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Greg KH Cc: Alexander Nyberg , Amit Gud , Alan Stern , Linux Kernel list , linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, Andrew Morton , Jeff Garzik , cramerj@intel.com, USB development list In-Reply-To: <20050425201250.GB24433@kroah.com> References: <20050425182951.GA23209@kroah.com> <20050425185113.GC23209@kroah.com> <20050425190606.GA23763@kroah.com> <1114458325.983.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050425201250.GB24433@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 13:59:10 +1000 Message-Id: <1114487950.7182.35.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 713 Lines: 21 On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 13:12 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > People are starting to submit patches for pci drivers that add "reboot > notifier" hooks, under the guise of fixing up kexec issues with those > drivers. > > That is why I proposed this patch, to make it easier for such drivers to > shutdown properly, without needing a reboot notifier hook (which takes > up more code and memory. But it isn't the right fix. It should be a suspend() call with PMSG_FREEZE Ben. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/