On Sat, 2016-07-23 at 22:18 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > I suspect that using (or depending on) the remove function may not be feasible > anymore after the recent effort by Paul Gortmaker to make drivers explicitly > non-modular if they are only configurable as boolean. In many cases, this > involved dropping remove functions.
A lot of drivers we care about are modular. But maybe the right approach is to do something like remove() if it exist and shutdown() if it doesn't ? Or a new callback for kexec ? quiesce() ? Cheers, Ben.