Kernel module that shuts down the device

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On Sun, 07 Nov 2021 18:16:55 -0600, Drew Abbott said:

> You mentioned that this shouldn't be called in an irq context, but the
> unplug event is detected with an irq. Where should I be calling
> kernel_power_off() if not in the irq context? I think one way of doing this
> would be to set a value that a heartbeat function reads in the irq, and
> then the heartbeat function calls the shutdown, but this driver doesn't use
> a heartbeat. Where else would I handle this?

There's a whole bunch of ways to schedule work in the kernel, it doesn't have to be
a heartbeat function.

Plenty of drivers are split into IRQ and non-IRQ parts (sometimes called the top and
bottom parts of the driver).  See how they get info from the IRQ part to the non-IRQ part.

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