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Through application which has opened the device
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Device Drivers
Re:
Device Driver notification of "Linux going down" (Stan Troeh)
Keywords: device drivers shutdown modules init watchdog
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 04:55:38 GMT
From:
johnsonm@redhat.com (Michael K. Johnson)
In order to shut down a device, have a user-level
application have it opened, and when it is sent SIGTERM
by init (or, presumably, any other process), close the
device or alert it of the shutdown in some other way.
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