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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] thermal: exynos: Add kernel thermal
 support for exynos platform
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 13:16:16 -0700
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To: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@linaro.org>
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On Tue,  8 May 2012 21:48:12 +0530
Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@linaro.org> wrote:

> This patchset introduces a new generic cooling device based on cpufreq that
> can be used on non-ACPI platforms. As a proof of concept, we have drivers for
> the following platforms using this mechanism now:
> 
>  * TI OMAP (git://git.linaro.org/people/amitdanielk/linux.git omap4460_thermal)
>  * Samsung Exynos (Exynos4 and Exynos5) in the current patchset.
>  * Freescale i.MX (git://git.linaro.org/people/amitdanielk/linux.git imx6q_thermal)
> 
> These patches have been reviewed by Rui Zhang (https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/9/448)

But we don't have explicit Reviewed-by:s for the changelogs?

> who seems to agree with them in principle, but I haven't had any luck getting them
> merged, perhaps a lack of maintainer bandwidth.
> 
> ACPI platforms currently have such a mechanism but it is wrapped in ACPI'isms
> that we don't have on ARM platforms. If this is accepted, I'm proposing to
> convert over the ACPI thermal driver to use this common code too.