Hi Fabio, On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 5:14 PM Fabio Estevam <festevam@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Rafael, > > On 30/08/2023 10:54, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > Well, as a matter of fact, it isn't, so I'm not sure where this is > > going. > > > > Bool definitely allows the property to be not present, which means > > that the default behavior is intended and this is all about overriding > > a known default behavior. > > This devicetree property can be used on non-Linux environments, such as > bootloaders. > > Bootloaders may have different default behavior than Linux, so > explicitly listing > "shutdown" or "reboot" make it clearer, independent of the OS. This property is defined in the Linux kernel source tree and it will only turn out whether or not any other projects adopt it, so I'm not really convinced by this argument. What I'm saying is that from the Linux kernel's POV, the definition is more complex than it needs to be. Moreover, to me it merely represents the preference of a system integrator and so in practice, it can be ignored.
