[PATCH v7 08/11] arm/arm64: Unexport restart handlers

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Günther,

On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net> wrote:
> On 12/04/2014 05:36 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 2:45 AM, Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net> wrote:
>>> Implementing a restart handler in a module don't make sense
>>> as there would be no guarantee that the module is loaded when
>>> a restart is needed. Unexport arm_pm_restart to ensure that
>>> no one gets the idea to do it anyway.
>>
>> Why not? I was just going to do that, but I got greeted by:
>
> Because you should register a restart handler instead, like the other
> drivers in the same directory now do.

That's a different thing. "there would be no guarantee that the module is
loaded when a restart is needed" is also valid for restart handlers...

>> ERROR: "arm_pm_restart" [drivers/power/reset/rmobile-reset.ko] undefined!
>>
>> So now we have to make sure all reset drivers for a zillion different
>> hardware devices are builtin, and can't be modular?
>>
> No. All those drivers need to do is to register a restart handler using
> the API provided in the patch series.
>
> Ultimately all restart handlers should do that and arm_pm_restart should
> go away entirely. That was the point of the patch series.

Good. That's what I'm doing right know ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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