From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: "lenb@kernel.org" <lenb@kernel.org>,
"linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
"Thomas, Sujith" <sujith.thomas@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] acpi: move thermal trip handling to generic thermal layer
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 12:59:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081208125904.GA31976@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1228719540.7929.141.camel@rzhang-dt>
On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 02:59:00PM +0800, Zhang Rui wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 01:55 +0800, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > The ACPI code currently carries its own thermal trip handling, meaning that
> > any other thermal implementation will need to reimplement it. Move the code
> > to the generic thermal layer.
> >
> Are these ACPI stuffs generic enough to be ported to the generic thermal
> driver?
> e.g. the tc1, tc2, tsp, they are mentioned in the ACPI spec,
> so my question is if the thermal zones than ACPI still have these
> concepts?
They're needed if you want to implement any sort of sensible
implementation of passive cooling. They might not be expressed in quite
the same way, but the basic concept is identical.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-08 12:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-27 17:48 [PATCH] thermal: use integers rather than strings for thermal values Matthew Garrett
2008-11-27 17:49 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-11-28 2:52 ` Zhang Rui
2009-01-16 13:44 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-12-03 17:55 ` [PATCH] acpi: move thermal trip handling to generic thermal layer Matthew Garrett
2008-12-03 18:00 ` [PATCH] thermal: support forcing support for passive cooling Matthew Garrett
2008-12-17 3:19 ` Zhang Rui
2008-12-28 15:22 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-01-06 22:42 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-02-13 1:21 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-02-20 23:45 ` Len Brown
2008-12-08 6:59 ` [PATCH] acpi: move thermal trip handling to generic thermal layer Zhang Rui
2008-12-08 12:59 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2008-12-17 3:02 ` Zhang Rui
2008-12-17 3:12 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-01-16 13:48 ` Thomas Renninger
2009-02-20 16:53 ` Len Brown
2009-02-20 23:44 ` Len Brown
2009-02-20 15:56 ` [PATCH] thermal: use integers rather than strings for thermal values Len Brown
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