Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] tools/lib/thermal: Add a thermal library

[srinivas pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>]

Hi Daniel,

On Wed, 2022-02-16 at 20:38 +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> 
> Hi Srinivas,
> 
> thanks for the review
> 
> On 16/02/2022 17:40, srinivas pandruvada wrote:
> > On Mon, 2022-02-14 at 22:04 +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> > > The thermal framework implements a netlink notification mechanism
> > > to
> > > be used by the userspace to have a thermal configuration
> > > discovery,
> > > trip point changes or violation, cooling device changes
> > > notifications,
> > > etc...
> > > 
> > > This library provides a level of abstraction for the thermal
> > > netlink
> > > notification allowing the userspace to connect to the
> > > notification
> > > mechanism more easily. The library is callback oriented.
> > > 
> > Some minor comments.
> > May be better use some defines instead of returning "-1" for error
> > conditions.
> 
> Do you suggest like an enum with different errors or just having -1 
> replaced by eg. THERMAL_ERROR ?
This will be fine.

Thanks,
Srinivas


> 
> 
> [ ... ]
> 
> > > + * Low level netlink
> > > + */
> > > +extern int nl_subscribe_thermal(struct nl_sock *nl_sock, struct
> > > nl_cb *nl_cb,
> > > +                               const char *group);
> > > +
> > To complete API, don't we need nl_unsubscribe which calls
> > nl_socket_drop_memberships()?
> Ah, yes. I'll add it.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
>