[PATCH V2 2/2] power: twl4030_charger: attempt to power off in case of critical events

Nishanth Menon nm at ti.com
Sat Jun 14 15:28:51 PDT 2014


On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel at ucw.cz> wrote:
>
>
> Userland can make orderly_poweroff take long time, or even forever. (Think disconnected
> network with nfsroot).
>
> Should we do something more forceful here? Userland has to handle sudden poweroffs, anyway...
>
> (You could invent new function "give userland 5 seconds to shut system down" if you
> really wanted...)


Or how about:

 /* If we have Power OFF ability, use it, else try restarting */
 if (pm_power_off) {
         kernel_power_off();
 } else {
         WARN(1, "FIXME: NO pm_power_off!!! trying restart\n");
         kernel_restart("Charger triggered emergency restart");
 }


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Regards,
Nishanth Menon



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