On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:49:14AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 08:30:57PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > There are many drivers that have been setting the generic driver
> > model�level shutdown callback, and pci thus must not override it.
> >
> > Without this patch we can have really bad data loss on various
> > raid controllers.
>
> Without the kexec patch?
On shutdown. I don't know why you're talking about kexec here.
> So, why are these drivers setting the shutdown function in the first
> place if they don't want it to be called?
They _do_ want it called. They set the driver-model level one because
there hasn't been a pci-level one until a few years ago.
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