Hi Andrew, > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2024 12:54 PM > Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] watchdog: aspeed: Update bootstatus handling > > On Mon, 2024-11-18 at 17:27 -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > So, again, what exactly would userspace do with the information that > > this was a watchdog triggered warm reboot ? Why would it need that > > information ? > > I'll defer to the others on To/Cc to answer that. > > My only position is I don't think changing behaviour of existing drivers to > exploit WDIOF_EXTERN1 as a graceful-reboot indicator is a good idea either. > Obviously I don't have much skin in the game with watchdog maintenance, so > my thoughts shouldn't have much influence beyond the Aspeed-specifics, but I > just didn't want to see some fun new confusion or incompatibility arise as a > result. > Agree to your misgiving, in the next patches, only two categories, "Power on reset" and "WDT reset" (Card reset), will be taken into consideration. The graceful-reboot scenario will be postponed to the patches in the future. Thanks, Chin-Ting
