Re: kexec and IRQ sharing

2005-03-08 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can implement either a shutdown method or a reboot notifier for > uhci-hcd. Note however that the upcoming changes to the PM core include a > suspend call (PMSG_FREEZE) that does exactly what you want: quiesce the > device, disable IRQ and DMA, but don't

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: kexec and IRQ sharing

2005-03-07 Thread David Brownell
On Monday 07 March 2005 2:08 pm, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > The ongoing DMA transfers which are companions of the irq generating > events are what really concern me, as we could get all kinds of > interesting memory stomps. Do you think you could implement > a reboot notifier or a shutdown() m

Re: kexec and IRQ sharing

2005-03-07 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 7 Mar 2005, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Shared IRQs will always be a problem. And the PCI subsystem doesn't > > > implement shutdown() methods; that seems like a pretty big hole. I guess > > > indi