linux-kernel - Geode cs5530a magic (Was: Re: [PATCH] clean up mach_reboot

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Date:	Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:18:16 -0700
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
CC:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Jaya Kumar <jayalk@...works.biz>
Subject: Geode cs5530a magic (Was: Re: [PATCH] clean up mach_reboot_fixups)

Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 March 2007 23:24, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>   
>> The reboot_fixups stuff seems to be a bit of a mess, specifically the
>> header is in linux/ when its a purely i386-specific piece of code.  I'm
>> not sure why it has its config option; its only currently needed for
>> "geode-gx1/cs5530a", so perhaps whatever config option controls that
>> hardware should enable this?
>>     
>
> Thanks. Looks good.

It looks like a cs5530a is a PATA driver in drivers/ata/pata_cs5530.c. 
Seems to me the cleanest fix is to register a reboot notifier in the
driver and have it do the magic rather than have the special
mach_reboot_fixups mechanism at all.

Assuming it needs to be done at all...

Alan? Jaya?

    J
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