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.
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