System shutdown sequence

Rahul Bedarkar rpal143 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 26 02:43:56 EDT 2014


Hi,

When system is going for shutdown, shutdown handler of each device
driver is called. Does kernel in this sequence calls remove handler ?

I believe that remove is not called if driver is built-in. Is my
understanding correct ?

Thanks,
Rahul



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