[RFC 0/5] restart cleanups

Wed Nov 2 06:30:01 EDT 2011

On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 08:46:06AM +0100, Robert Jarzmik wrote:
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> De: "Russell King - ARM Linux" <linux at arm.linux.org.uk>
> > We do have this problem - mioa701 - which insists on doing things like
> > kfree, free_irq, gpio_free in this path, which is a bad idea as it can
> True. You mean gsm_exit() and bootstrap_exit() I think.
> These were added to free resources in a shutdown. If freeing is pointless,
> in a reboot case, and stale resources don't matter, well, we can kill these
> 2 functions.

Provided you're talking about software state only, then it is pointless
because the state of the system software will be lost on reboot anyway.