On Sun, 2016-07-24 at 16:36 -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > 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() ?
>
> Perhaps remove if shutdown do
Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
> 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 configurab
Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
> 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
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 maintain
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
> invol
Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
> Hi !
>
> This is somewhat of a recurring issue, some of my previous attempts on
> lkml, I suspect, were just drowned in the noise. Eric, we had a quick
> discussion about this a while back but I don't think we reached a
> conclusion.
>
> A bit of context: On OpenP
On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 06:51:52AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Hi !
>
> This is somewhat of a recurring issue, some of my previous attempts on
> lkml, I suspect, were just drowned in the noise. Eric, we had a quick
> discussion about this a while back but I don't think we reached a
> co
Hi !
This is somewhat of a recurring issue, some of my previous attempts on
lkml, I suspect, were just drowned in the noise. Eric, we had a quick
discussion about this a while back but I don't think we reached a
conclusion.
A bit of context: On OpenPOWER machines, we have a Linux based
bootloader
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