On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 07:27:08AM +0100, Domenico Andreoli wrote:

Hi,

  I've been looking for a solution to my bcm4760 watchdog based restart
hook when I noticed that the kernel reboot/shutdown mechanism is having
a few unaddressed issues.

Those I identified are:

 1) context pointer often needed by the reset hook
    (currently local static data is used for this pourpose)

I don't think that's a problem at all.

I don't see these impressive diffstats but at least it's possible to free
some static data along the way. Maybe there are some other desiderata that
could be satisfied?

If that's the only benefit, then I don't think this is worth the churn,
sorry.