Re: power: Add simple poweroff-gpio driver

From: Dave Jones
Date: Fri Dec 14 2012 - 15:05:20 EST


On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 08:53:40PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > > I think it needs to be on the menuconfig, rather than the child options.
> > > I don't have OF_GPIO, but I still got asked for the former.
> >
> > The menuconfig enables a class of drivers (at least theoretically in the
> > future, when more such drivers turn up), and there's no reason to
> > believe that all of those drivers will depend on OF. So in my opinion,
> > making POWER_RESET_GPIO depend on OF makes sense, but making POWER_RESET
> > depend on it doesn't.
>
> I have another driver coming soon which will not depend on OF_GPIO. It
> does however depend on OF. Its for a class of boards which have a
> microcontroller controlling the main power supply, and sending an
> character over a UART port is used to turn the board power off.
>
> There might also be some legacy drivers which could be moved here
> which don't depend on OF at all.
>
> So i would prefer to keep POWER_RESET generic.

Perhaps a CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_POWER_RESET option for arches that opt-in ?

Dave

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