[PATCH] init: handle kexec clean reboot

Jeremy Kerr jk at ozlabs.org
Mon May 20 06:52:57 UTC 2013


Hi all,

> That seems a little bit clunky; we may not always want the restart
> action to be a kexec (but just a normal reboot). In this case, would we
> need to be dynamically reconfiguring the restart action?

Hm, it looks like we can indeed set up kexec as a "permanent" restart
handler without affecting normal reboot.

This assumes that we don't end up restarting for other reasons; is this
a valid assumption (and not a horrible misuse of an existing feature :))?

Cheers,


Jeremy



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