[PATCH v2] ARM: highbank: handle soft poweroff and reset key events

Olof Johansson olof at lixom.net
Wed Dec 4 12:29:35 EST 2013


On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 11:05:17AM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> From: Rob Herring <rob.herring at calxeda.com>
> 
> Graceful reboot and poweroff via IPMI commands to the management
> processor don't work. Power and reset keys are events from the
> management processor which are generated via IPC messages. Passing
> the keys to userspace does not work as neither acpid nor a desktop
> environment are present.
> 
> This adds a notifier handler for the IPC messages so the kernel can
> handle the key events directly and IPMI graceful shutdown will work.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring at calxeda.com>
> ---
> v2: Re-word the commit msg to give better description of the issue.

Applied, and cc:d stable in the commit message. Thanks for rewording and
explaining why it's considered a bugfix.

-Olof



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