[PATCH v4 4/4] ARM: bcm4760: Add restart hook

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Mon Sep 16 16:01:08 EDT 2013


On Monday 16 September 2013 14:00:01 Wim Van Sebroeck wrote:
> 
> I remember that the Cobalt Devices have no ability to reboot themselves.
> That's why the driver uses the reboot_notifier for rebooting the device.
> See drivers/watchdog/alim7101_wdt.c .

Hmm, a notifier seems the wrong approach here, because we really want
to handle all reboot_notifiers before actually rebooting, and we'd enter
the wdt driver at a random point in the notifier chain. It probably works
by chance if the watchdog reboots a second after its notifier is called,
and all other calls are done as well, but it doesn't seem like a clean
solution.

> I'll have a look to have an extra ops that adds this functionality in the framework.

Ok, cool. Thanks!

	Arnd



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