From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Heiko Schocher Subject: Re: GPIO triggers kernel reboot Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 07:22:18 +0100 Message-ID: <52E5FB1A.2020205@denx.de> References: <52E3E031.6040709@denx.de> Reply-To: hs@denx.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Steve deRosier Cc: linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org, Wolfgang Denk , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" Hello Steve, Thanks for your answer! Am 25.01.2014 20:39, schrieb Steve deRosier: > Hi Heiko, > > It's certainly possible, and it's also easily done from user-space. > Something like this is more policy than function. It's also a potential > security issue. As such I'd expect it highly unlikely that the kernel > maintainers would allow it to go upstream. Give it a try though. Ok, thats what I also think ... > I'd approach this from user-space. Add in the gpio-keys driver and use the > input-event-daemon to trigger a reboot. Super easy. Yes, that was also my suggestion, but is there a way to do this without user space usage in a generic way? bye, Heiko -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany