On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 12:23 PM Cristian Marussi <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Rob > > thanks for the feedback.
Plain text for maillists please. > > > On top of this a new SCMI driver has been developed which registers for > > ---- > > such System Power notification and acts accordingly to satisfy such > > plaform system-state transition requests that can be of forceful or > > graceful kind. > > > I needed this 7 years ago. :) (hb_keys_notifier in > > arch/arm/mach-highbank/highbank.c) > > ...better later than never > > > Such alternative, if deemed worth, should clearly be configurable via DT > > (also in terms of which signals to use), BUT all of this work is not done > > in this series: and that's the reason for the RFC tag: does it make sense > > to add such a configurable additional option ? > > >Which process signal to use in DT? I don't think so. > > ... beside the awkward bad idea of mine of configuring it via DT > (which I'll drop possibly using modparams for this config), my question > was more about if it makes sense at all to have another alternative mechanism > (other than orderly_poweroof/reboot)) based on signals to gracefully ask > userspace > to shutdown gregkh will tell you no to module params. If the signal is not standard, then we probably shouldn't go that route. Rob
