> I'd say that as long as the shutdown routines are executed in reverse
> order of startup, then the core driver stuff has fulfilled its
> obligations.
>
> In this case we need to understand why the lockup is happening - what
> code is requiring 8259 services after the thing has been turned off?
> Could be that the bug lies there.
The registration is somewhat unfair here, it depends on device_initcall
and we initialise the 8259 in init_IRQ.
Zwane
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