Messages in this thread | | | From | Keith Owens <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] x86 ELF bootable kernels/Linux booting Linux/LinuxBIOS | Date | Thu, 31 Jan 2002 10:52:12 +1100 |
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On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 13:19:17 -0800, Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au> wrote: >"Eric W. Biederman" wrote: >> In the short term shutting down devices is trivially handled by >> umounting filesystems, downing ethernet devices, and calling the >> reboot notifier chain. Long term I need to call the module_exit >> routines but they need a little sorting out before I can use them >> during reboot. In particular calling any module_exit routing that clears >> pm_power_off is a no-no. > >module_exit() routines for statically-linked drivers often >don't exist - they're in .text.exit. I guess you can just >move .text.exit out of the /DISCARD/ section in vmlinux.lds.
Sounds like a generalization of device hot plugging, which has already solved this problem. Turn on CONFIG_HOTPLUG and module_exit() functions are in .text instead of .text.exit, no need to fiddle with vmlinux.lds.
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