Re: [PATCH 0/5] Add support for WD MyCloud EX2 Ultra (+ versatile UART-based restart/poweroff drivers)

Andrew Lunn
2019-07-23T01:56:40Z

On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 09:53:00PM +0200, Evgeny Kolesnikov wrote:
> This patchset consists of the DTS, which describes the WD MyCloud EX2 Ultra device,
> 'poweroff' and 'resert' drivers for power-managing MCUs connected to a board via UART
> (these drivers are more versatile than qnap-poweroff and could be used as a substitude),
> and DT bindings for these drivers.
>
> The difference between uart-poweroff and qnap-poweroff is small, but important:
> uart-poweroff is able to send to an MCU a command of arbitrary length, and the command
> itself is defined in a DTS file for a specific device/board, thus making this driver
> applicable to wider range of devices.

Hi Evgeny

There is a lot of replicated code here, and in the original
qnap-poweroff.c driver. Please consolidate it by extending the current
driver. It should be easy to add a new compatible string, and turn
power_off_cfg.cmd into an array.

Andrew