Hi Mark,
2014-09-28 12:33 GMT+02:00 Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 04:21:44PM +0000, Romain Perier wrote:
>> When the property "active-semi,system-power-controller" is found in the
>> devicetree, the function pm_power_off is defined. This function sends the
>> rights bit fields to the global off control register. shutdown/poweroff
>> commands are now supported for hardware components which use these PMU.
>
> We really need to come up with a standard property for this and document
> it rather than continuing to add individual device specific properties
> all doing the same thing, and probably also some helper code and/or a
> standard operation for this - there's a lot of drivers implementing the
> same pattern here.
I completly agree about adding a unified and generic property for that purpose.
I already proposed something for that on devicetree ML, see the thread
"Proposal: generic property for system-power-controller".
Unfortunately I did not get replies :) .
>
>> + if (dev->of_node &&
>> + of_property_read_bool(dev->of_node,
>> + "active-semi,system-power-controller")) {
>> + act8865_i2c_client = client;
>
> Indentation seems messed up here - tabs vs spaces?
Yes, I really don't understand where the problem is. I use good emacs
settings to be compatible with kernel coding style and git diff does
not show me indent/spaces problems :/ .
Sorry because this is a very boring issue when reviewing patches... I
will investigate ^^
Romain
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