Re: kexec: device shutdown vs. remove

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Sun, 2016-07-24 at 00:24 -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> If you are willing to do the work to merge shutdown into remove and
> simplify the drivers, perform the testing and the other state I am in
> favor of the change. I think we have had enough time to see if have two
> methods was maintainable for the driver authors.

Well, remove is going away in some drivers at least...

Also shutdown() has two different meaning between kexec and actual
machine shutdown...

Should we create a new one instead ? Something like quiesce() ? If
absent, look for remove(), if absent too, look for shutdown() ...

Or we continue doing shutdown() for now with a fallback to remove() if
shutdown is NULL (this is what I've been toying with internally).

Cheers,
ben.