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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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>,
	Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] reboot: allow to specify reboot mode via sysfs
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2020 14:33:12 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201106143312.830f2a7410efcf397614b9d4@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201106200704.192894-1-mcroce@linux.microsoft.com>

On Fri,  6 Nov 2020 21:07:04 +0100 Matteo Croce <mcroce@linux.microsoft.com> wrote:

> 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.

Please include a description of why you believe the kernel needs this
feature.  Use cases, end-user benefits, etc.

We've survived this long without it - what changed?

  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-06 22:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-06 20:07 Matteo Croce
2020-11-06 22:33 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2020-11-06 23:19   ` Matteo Croce
2020-11-09 14:16 ` Petr Mladek
2020-11-09 15:03   ` Matteo Croce

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