Re: kexec: device shutdown vs. remove

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Sat, 2016-07-23 at 22:18 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> I suspect that using (or depending on) the remove function may not be feasible
> anymore after the recent effort by Paul Gortmaker to make drivers explicitly
> non-modular if they are only configurable as boolean. In many cases, this
> involved dropping remove functions.

A lot of drivers we care about are modular. But maybe the right
approach is to do something like remove() if it exist and shutdown() if
it doesn't ? Or a new callback for kexec ? quiesce() ?

Cheers,
Ben.