[PATCH v4 1/3] watchdog: aspeed: Update bootstatus handling

[Chin-Ting Kuo]

Hi Andrew,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Jeffery <andrew at codeconstruct.com.au>
> 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