[PATCH v4 1/2] power: reset: add linkstation-reset driver

Roger Shimizu rogershimizu at gmail.com
Sun Jan 8 19:31:44 PST 2017


Dear Ryan,

Thanks for your comments!

On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 2:02 AM, Ryan Tandy <ryan at nardis.ca> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 12:04:50AM +0900, Roger Shimizu wrote:
>>
>> +config POWER_RESET_LINKSTATION
>> +       bool "Buffalo Linkstation and its variants reset driver"
>> +       depends on OF_GPIO && PLAT_ORION
>> +       help
>> +         This driver supports power off Buffalo Linkstation / KuroBox Pro
>> +         NAS and their variants by sending commands to the
>> micro-controller
>> +         which controls the main power.
>
> Would it make sense to mention something about these being the ARM9/orion5x
> Linkstations? If I understand correctly, the older PPC Linkstations have a
> single-byte poweroff command. (Maybe they could even be supported by
> qnap-poweroff.)
>
> See arch/powerpc/platforms/embedded6xx/linkstation.c around line 123, and
> arch/powerpc/platforms/embedded6xx/ls_uart.c.

This driver, linkstation-reset, can also handle PPC Linkstation after
it's converted to DT.
I already considered this and mentioned in previous reply [0].

[0] http://marc.info/?l=linux-pm&m=148216908031283

Cheers,
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