linux-kernel - Re: power: Add simple poweroff-gpio driver

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Message-ID: <20121214215925.GA4817@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 14 Dec 2012 16:59:25 -0500
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jamie Lentin <jm@...tin.co.uk>,
	Simon Baatz <gmbnomis@...il.com>,
	Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>
Subject: Re: power: Add simple poweroff-gpio driver

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 10:53:21PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
 > >  > Its a generic driver. I know its useful on various Marvell kirkwood
 > >  > and orion5x devices. I've also heard it useful on some Tegra boards.
 > >  > 
 > >  > Are you asking i list these boards?
 > > 
 > 
 > > No, but at least mentioning the architecture might have clued me in
 > > quicker that this wasn't some now ACPI-ism when I saw it on x86.
 > 
 > Hi Dave
 > 
 > It is architecture independent. There are examples of ARM, AVR32, &
 > unicore32 boards which could use this and there might be more.

Right, but as I alluded to in my other mail, if those archs define
ARCH_NEED_POWEROFF or similar, this won't show up on arches that don't care.

	Dave
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