Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] Support INT3406 Display thermal device

["Zhang, Rui" <rui.zhang@intel.com>]

On Fri, 2016-05-06 at 14:45 +0800, Aaron Lu wrote:
> On 05/05/2016 05:47 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Thursday, April 28, 2016 09:48:30 AM Aaron Lu wrote:
> >> On 04/28/2016 03:38 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 2:45 PM, Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com> wrote:
> >>>> v3:
> >>>> Split patch 3/3 in v2 into 2 patches: one makes changes to acpi_video
> >>>> and one adds the int3406 driver as suggested by Rafael. There should
> >>>> be no functionality change compared to v2.
> >>>>
> >>>> v2:
> >>>> The display thermal device represents the LED/LCD display panel
> >>>> that may or may not include touch support. The main function of
> >>>> the display thermal device is to allow control of the display
> >>>> brightness in order to address a thermal condition or to reduce
> >>>> power consumed by display device.
> >>>>
> >>>> Due to the way this thermal device changes brightness level is said
> >>>> to be deprecated so we are using the raw interface to do the actual
> >>>> backlight change. This requires the backlight core support so two
> >>>> new APIs are added and exported in patch 1/3. With this, the previous
> >>>> API backlight_device_registered can be removed and this is done in
> >>>> patch 2/3. Patch 3/3 adds the new int3406 thermal driver.
> >>>>
> >>>> The 1st version is here:
> >>>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.acpi.devel/72619
> >>>>
> >>>> This whole series should go through the thermal tree if applied.
> >>>>
> >>>> Aaron Lu (3):
> >>>>   video / backlight: add two APIs for drivers to use
> >>>>   video / backlight: remove the backlight_device_registered API
> >>>>   Thermal: add INT3406 thermal driver
> >>>>
> >>>>  drivers/acpi/acpi_video.c                         |  83 ++++----
> >>>>  drivers/acpi/video_detect.c                       |   2 +-
> >>>>  drivers/thermal/Kconfig                           |  28 +--
> >>>>  drivers/thermal/int340x_thermal/Kconfig           |  42 ++++
> >>>>  drivers/thermal/int340x_thermal/Makefile          |   1 +
> >>>>  drivers/thermal/int340x_thermal/int3406_thermal.c | 236 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>>>  drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c               |  39 ++--
> >>>>  include/acpi/video.h                              |  20 ++
> >>>>  include/linux/backlight.h                         |   3 +-
> >>>>  9 files changed, 374 insertions(+), 80 deletions(-)
> >>>>  create mode 100644 drivers/thermal/int340x_thermal/Kconfig
> >>>>  create mode 100644 drivers/thermal/int340x_thermal/int3406_thermal.c
> >>>
> >>> The first three patches in this series look OK to me, so
> >>>
> >>> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
> >>>
> >>> for the [1-3/4].
> >>>
> >>> That said it may be better if those three go in via ACPI.  I can put
> >>> them into a separate branch for Rui to pull from.
> >>>
> >>> Please let me know what you think.
> >>
> >> I have no problem with that.
> > 
> > OK
> > 
> > [1-3/4] have been queued up for 4.7 in my tree.  Please let me know if you
> > want me to expose the branch containing them.
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> 
> Rui,
> 
> Do you need a branch so that you can pull and merge 4/4 on top of that?
> 
Rafael, can you please take patch 4/4 as well?
It should not conflict with my other thermal material.

thanks,
rui