From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Lezcano Subject: Re: [PATCH] thermal: of: Allow selection of thermal governor in DT Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 22:11:12 +0100 Message-ID: References: <3b80853abb45a9e067cf7a16754b07bb67712457.1520274879.git.amit.kucheria@linaro.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <3b80853abb45a9e067cf7a16754b07bb67712457.1520274879.git.amit.kucheria@linaro.org> Content-Language: en-US Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Amit Kucheria , devicetree@vger.kernel.org Cc: Ram Chandrasekar , ilina@codeaurora.org, Zhang Rui , Eduardo Valentin , Rob Herring , Mark Rutland , linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On 05/03/2018 19:36, Amit Kucheria wrote: > From: Ram Chandrasekar > > There is currently no way for the governor to be selected for each thermal > zone in devicetree. This results in the default governor being used for all > thermal zones even though no such restriction exists in the core code. > > Add support for specifying the thermal governor to be used for a thermal > zone in the devicetree. The devicetree config should specify the governor > name as a string that matches any available governors. If not specified, we > maintain the current behaviour of using the default governor. > > Signed-off-by: Ram Chandrasekar > Signed-off-by: Amit Kucheria Why not create a kernel parameter (eg. thermal.governor=) ? So everyone can gain benefit of this feature. And in order to specify that from the DT, add the 'chosen' node and bootargs with the desired kernel parameter? -- Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog