On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 10:42:07PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > Well it seems that people are starting to want to hook the reboot > > notifier, or the device shutdown facility in order to properly shutdown > > pci drivers to make kexec work nicer. > > > > So here's a patch for the PCI core that allows pci drivers to now just > > add a "shutdown" notifier function that will be called when the system > > is being shutdown. It happens just after the reboot notifier happens, > > and it should happen in the proper device tree order, so everyone should > > be happy. > > > > Any objections to this patch? > > Yes. > > I believe it should just do suspend(PMSG_SUSPEND) before system > shutdown. If you think distintion between shutdown and suspend is > important (I am not 100% convinced it is), we can just add flag > saying "this is system shutdown".
Then why even have the device_shutdown() call and notifier in the struct device_driver? > Actually this patch should be in the queue somewhere... We had it in > suse trees for a long time, and IMO it can solve problem easily. > > Pavel > > --- clean-git/kernel/sys.c 2005-04-23 23:21:55.000000000 +0200 > +++ linux/kernel/sys.c 2005-04-24 00:20:47.000000000 +0200 > @@ -404,6 +404,7 @@ > case LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_HALT: > notifier_call_chain(&reboot_notifier_list, SYS_HALT, NULL); > system_state = SYSTEM_HALT; > + device_suspend(PMSG_SUSPEND); > device_shutdown(); Again, why keep device_shutdown() around at all then? thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
