Re: [RFC][PATCH] misc: Introduce reboot_reason driver

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 1:20 AM, Tomas Winkler [off-list ref] wrote:

Intel uses EFI variables for that on  some AOS platforms. There is a
need for persistent storage abstraction and generalize the reboot
reasons strings.

Yea. I've been told there isn't any sort of standardized method for
EFI here. But I have seen a few different implementations floating
around.

One of the machines I want to support with this driver is actually
using a UEFI bootloader, but we don't have separate storage to use to
communicate back via the UEFI methods, so the ram based approach looks
like the best solution.

Second, I wonder why this is submitted under drivers/misc when it
doesn't bind the misc API.

Heh. Apologies. Its more of a "where do I put this?", misc rather then
"this should be part of the established misc infrastructure!"
Suggestions for alternative locations?

thanks
-john