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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Matteo Croce <mcroce@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
	Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] reboot: allow to specify reboot mode via sysfs
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 11:03:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210222100325.GA14587@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201110202746.9690-1-mcroce@linux.microsoft.com>

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On Tue 2020-11-10 21:27:46, Matteo Croce wrote:
> From: Matteo Croce <mcroce@microsoft.com>
> 
> The kernel cmdline reboot= option offers some sort of control
> on how the reboot is issued.
> Add handles in sysfs to allow setting these reboot options, so they
> can be changed when the system is booted, other than at boot time.

We already have a reboot syscall, do we need sysfs interface, too?


> +What:		/sys/kernel/reboot/mode
> +Date:		November 2020
> +KernelVersion:	5.11
> +Contact:	Matteo Croce <mcroce@microsoft.com>
> +Description:	Reboot mode. Valid values are: cold warm hard soft gpio


> +What:		/sys/kernel/reboot/type
> +Date:		November 2020
> +KernelVersion:	5.11
> +Contact:	Matteo Croce <mcroce@microsoft.com>
> +Description:	Reboot type. Valid values are: bios acpi kbd triple efi pci

what is difference between mode and type? What is difference between
cold and hard for example? WTF is gpio?

> +What:		/sys/kernel/reboot/cpu
> +Date:		November 2020
> +KernelVersion:	5.11
> +Contact:	Matteo Croce <mcroce@microsoft.com>
> +Description:	CPU number to use to reboot.

Why should user care about this?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-02-22 10:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-10 20:27 [PATCH v4] reboot: allow to specify reboot mode via sysfs Matteo Croce
2020-11-12  3:50 ` [PATCH] reboot: Fix variable assignments in type_store Nathan Chancellor
2020-11-12 11:26   ` Matteo Croce
2020-11-12 17:49     ` Nathan Chancellor
2020-11-12 17:59       ` Matteo Croce
2020-11-12 18:09         ` Nathan Chancellor
2020-11-12 23:13   ` Andrew Morton
2020-11-13  0:20     ` Matteo Croce
2020-11-13  0:41       ` Matteo Croce
2020-11-13  1:18       ` Andrew Morton
2020-11-13  1:38         ` Matteo Croce
2020-11-13  2:46           ` Andrew Morton
2020-11-13  2:58             ` Matteo Croce
2020-11-13 20:06               ` Petr Mladek
2020-11-13 21:28                 ` Matteo Croce
2020-11-18 11:47                   ` Petr Mladek
2020-11-13 15:56   ` Petr Mladek
2021-02-22 10:03 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2021-02-22 13:12   ` [PATCH v4] reboot: allow to specify reboot mode via sysfs Matteo Croce

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