linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] kernel: Add support for restart notifier call chain

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Message-ID: <20140701170853.GX18313@arm.com>
Date:	Tue, 1 Jul 2014 18:08:53 +0100
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	"linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org" <linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@...ana.be>,
	Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>,
	Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@....com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de>,
	Jonas Jensen <jonas.jensen@...il.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	"linux-doc@...r.kernel.org" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@...il.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] kernel: Add support for restart notifier call
 chain

On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 02:45:24PM +0100, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 07/01/2014 04:24 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 09:28:51PM +0100, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> >> What is restart-poweroff supposed to do in the first place, and why
> >> doesn't it call machine_restart() ? If it is what I think it is, ie
> >> a fallback for pm_power_off, it could be made generic and does not
> >> really have to depend on ARM.
> >
> > I think this one pretends to do a power-off via restart. It could call
> > machine_restart() but this only passes the default reboot_mode to
> > arm_pm_restart().
> 
> Unless one sets reboot_mode first. See my proposed patch in
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/30/792.

It looks fine to me.

-- 
Catalin
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