linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] watchdog: mach-moxart: add restart handler

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Message-ID: <20140122200113.GA7490@spo001.leaseweb.com>
Date:	Wed, 22 Jan 2014 21:01:13 +0100
From:	Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@...ana.be>
To:	Jonas Jensen <jonas.jensen@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	arm@...nel.org, arnd@...db.de, linux@...ck-us.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] watchdog: mach-moxart: add restart handler

Hi Jonas,

> mach-moxart lacks a separate register for reset; as a workaround,
> add a function that can be hooked to arm_pm_restart.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jonas Jensen <jonas.jensen@...il.com>

Added to linux-watchdog-next.

> ---
> 
> Notes:
>     During review of this driver, the restart handler for moxart was
>     removed, and moved to platform code under arch/arm/mach-moxart/.
>     
>     Since then, new considerations arrived,
>     see replies from Arnd and Guenter:
>     
>     "[PATCH v4 1/2] ARM: mach-moxart: add MOXA ART SoC platform files"
>     http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2013-December/219175.html
>     
>     I can move this to a new power/restart driver, but first, I want to
>     hear what Wim or others think.
>     
>     Until there is a better solution, my motivation is that this uses
>     the watchdog. The way I see it, the problem is that there is no
>     separate register for reset, this was always a workaround for that.
>     
>     Applies to next-20131218

Will review this again after the merge window is over.

Kind regards,
Wim.

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