On Tue, 2017-02-14 at 15:45 +1300, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > The only difference ever that should exist between shutdown and remove > is do you clean up kernel data structures. The shutdown method is > allowed to skip the cleanup up kernel data structures that the remove > method needs to make. > > Assuming the kernel does not have corrupted data structures I don't see > any practical reason for distinguishing between the two. There may be > some real world gotchas we have to deal with but semantically I don't > see any concerns. We had historical additions to shutdown actually shutting things down, like spinning platters down to park disk heads, switching devices into D3 on some systems, etc... that remove never had (and we don't want for kexec). Cheers, Ben.
