Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] watchdog: aspeed: Update bootstatus handling

[Andrew Jeffery]

On Mon, 2024-11-18 at 17:27 -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> So, again, what exactly would userspace do with the information that
> this
> was a watchdog triggered warm reboot ? Why would it need that
> information ?

I'll defer to the others on To/Cc to answer that.

My only position is I don't think changing behaviour of existing
drivers to exploit WDIOF_EXTERN1 as a graceful-reboot indicator is a
good idea either. Obviously I don't have much skin in the game with
watchdog maintenance, so my thoughts shouldn't have much influence
beyond the Aspeed-specifics, but I just didn't want to see some fun new
confusion or incompatibility arise as a result.

Andrew