On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 03:39:09PM -0700, Colin Cross wrote: > On many (most?) ARM SoCs, the reboot flag is not stored on disk, or > anywhere else userspace can access. It is stored in a power > management controller scratch register that survives resets, or a > register in an external I2C PMIC, or in internal SoC RAM (I've seen > all of these). For your proposal, every SoC would need a custom API > to save the reboot flag somewhere. For these devices, it clearly > makes more sense to use something like the REBOOT2 API, and if we have > to use it on some devices, it makes no sense to me to not use it on > other devices just because userspace could theoretically handle it.
That's fine, but that is not what this patch did at all. Propose a patch that handles writing to those types of registers and we will be glad to review it. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
