Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 31 Mar 2015 15:39:12 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] kernel/reboot.c: Add orderly_reboot for graceful reboot |
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On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 12:45:32 +1030 Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au> wrote:
> The kernel has orderly_poweroff which allows the kernel to initiate a > graceful shutdown of userspace, by running /sbin/poweroff. This adds > orderly_reboot that will cause userspace to shut itself down by calling > /sbin/reboot. > > This will be used for shutdown initiated by a system controller on > platforms that do not use ACPI.
gee. There are a lot of callers of emergency_restart(). Why is the BMC reboot special, and how many of the emergency_restart() callers really be using orderly_reboot()?
We have /proc/sys/kernel/poweroff_cmd. Should we have /proc/sys/kernel/reboot_cmd as well? If not, kernel/reboot.c:reboot_cmd[] can be made static ;)
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