Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/3] acpi: Introduce prepare_remove device operation

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Thursday, November 15, 2012 11:22:47 AM Vasilis Liaskovitis wrote:
> As discussed in https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1581581/
> the driver core remove function needs to always succeed. This means we need
> to know that the device can be successfully removed before acpi_bus_trim / 
> acpi_bus_hot_remove_device are called. This can cause panics when OSPM-initiated
> eject or driver unbind of memory devices fails e.g with:
> 
> echo 1 >/sys/bus/pci/devices/PNP0C80:XX/eject
> echo "PNP0C80:XX" > /sys/bus/acpi/drivers/acpi_memhotplug/unbind
> 
> since the ACPI core goes ahead and ejects the device regardless of whether the
> the memory is still in use or not.

So the question is, does the ACPI core have to do that and if so, then why?

Rafael


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