Re: Announce: dumpfs v0.01 - common RAS output API

[Jesse Barnes]

On Wednesday, July 28, 2004 11:00 am, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > I think this could end up being a good thing.  It gives more people a
> > stake in making sure that driver shutdown() routines work well.
>
> Which actually is one of the items open for discussion currently.
> For kexec on panic do we want to run the shutdown() routines?

We'll have to do something about incoming dma traffic and other stuff that the 
devices might be doing.  Maybe a arch specific callout to do some chipset 
stuff?

Jesse
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