From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mochel@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] devexit fixes in i82092.c
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 18:51:51 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15271.1016265111@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 15 Mar 2002 23:40:30 -0800." <Pine.LNX.4.33.0203152339200.31551-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 23:40:30 -0800 (PST),
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> wrote:
>On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> Further, I wonder if the reboot/shutdown notifiers can be replaced with
>> device tree control over those events...
>
>This is what I want. Those reboot/shutdown notifiers are completely and
>utterly buggy, and cannot sanely handle any kind of device hierarchy.
Does that mean that we also get rid of the initcall methods? If
shutdown follows a device tree then startup should also use that tree.
OTOH module load and unload require well defined startup and shutdown
functions, modules cannot rely on device trees.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-16 7:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-16 0:57 Anders Gustafsson
2002-03-16 1:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-03-16 2:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-03-16 7:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-03-16 7:51 ` Keith Owens [this message]
2002-03-16 8:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-03-16 9:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-03-16 9:50 ` Keith Owens
2002-03-25 19:15 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-03-16 8:51 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-03-16 17:35 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-16 17:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-03-25 19:19 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-03-16 9:40 ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-03-22 15:47 ` Pavel Machek
2002-03-16 10:32 ` David Woodhouse
2002-03-16 19:27 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-03-16 21:00 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-16 22:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-03-16 22:28 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-16 22:16 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-03-16 22:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-03-16 23:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-03-16 23:15 ` Dave Jones
2002-03-21 15:12 ` Pavel Machek
2002-03-25 19:02 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-03-24 23:36 Alexander Stohr
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