[PATCH v2 04/13] soc: bcm: brcmstb: Document panic notifier action and remove useless header

Florian Fainelli f.fainelli at gmail.com
Wed Jul 20 16:00:09 PDT 2022


On Tue, 19 Jul 2022 16:53:17 -0300, "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli at igalia.com> wrote:
> The panic notifier of this driver is very simple code-wise, just a
> memory write to a special position with some numeric code. But this
> is not clear from the semantic point-of-view, and there is no public
> documentation about that either.
> 
> After discussing this in the mailing-lists [0] and having Florian
> explained it very well, document that in the code for the future
> generations asking the same questions. Also, while at it, remove
> a useless header.
> 
> [0] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/781cafb0-8d06-8b56-907a-5175c2da196a@gmail.com
> 
> Cc: Brian Norris <computersforpeace at gmail.com>
> Cc: Doug Berger <opendmb at gmail.com>
> Cc: Justin Chen <justinpopo6 at gmail.com>
> Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones at linaro.org>
> Cc: Markus Mayer <mmayer at broadcom.com>
> Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli at igalia.com>
> 
> ---

Applied to https://github.com/Broadcom/stblinux/commits/drivers/next, thanks!
--
Florian



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