Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 May 2008 10:14:00 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alan Stern <> | Subject | Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH -mm] kexec jump -v9 |
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On Wed, 14 May 2008, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> My take on the situation is this. For proper handling we > need driver device_detach and device_reattach methods. > > With the following semantics. The device_detach methods > will disable DMA and place the hardware in a sane state > from which the device driver can reclaim and reinitialize it, > but the hardware will not be touched. > > device_reattach reattaches the driver to the hardware.
How would these differ from the already-existing remove and probe methods?
Alan Stern
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