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

From: Martin J. Bligh
Date: Wed Jul 28 2004 - 14:46:53 EST


>> > 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?

I vote for sleeping for 5 seconds ;-) Should kill off most of it ...

M.

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