Re: [RFC][PATCH] misc: Introduce reboot_reason driver

From: John Stultz
Date: Thu Dec 10 2015 - 15:03:58 EST


On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 11:57 AM, One Thousand Gnomes
<gnomes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Dec 2015 11:04:03 -0800
> John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 1:20 AM, Tomas Winkler <tomasw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Second, I wonder why this is submitted under drivers/misc when it
>> > doesn't bind the misc API.
>>
>> Heh. Apologies. Its more of a "where do I put this?", misc rather then
>> "this should be part of the established misc infrastructure!"
>> Suggestions for alternative locations?
>
> Other than providing a reason (which could be via sysfs) I don't actually
> see what in the rest of it doesn't either live in the platform arch/ code
> or for standardised firmware in the EFI / ACPI or some other drivers.

Ok. Will move to drivers/firmware unless suggested otherwise.

thanks
-john
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