Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Jul 2004 13:33:37 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [Fastboot] Re: Announce: dumpfs v0.01 - common RAS output API |
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ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote: > > "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com> writes: > > We discussed this at kernel summit a bit - it'd be safer to make the devices > > clear down on boot up, rather than shutdown, if possible ... less work to > > do on the unstable base. > > Agreed, but I think for starters we should capture the low hanging fruit > by calling the shutdown method and then increasingly harden the > code by performing less in the kernel that panics and more in the > cleanup kernel.
We really don't want to be calling driver shutdown functions from a crashed kernel.
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