Thermal governors non-modularity

Thermal governors non-modularity

[Jean Delvare]

Hi Rui, Eduardo,

Is there any fundamental reason why thermal governors can't be built as
modules? We have more and more of them, 5 now, and the most recent is
fairly big... Would be much more practical if they could be built as
modules and loaded at run-time only as needed.

Thanks,
-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support

RE: Thermal governors non-modularity

[Zhang, Rui]

I tried to use them as module in the first place, but failed for some reason. I cannot recall the root cause, but I will try to check this and reply to you later. :)

Thanks,
rui

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jean Delvare [mailto:jdelvare@suse.de]
> Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2016 9:05 PM
> To: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: Zhang, Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>; Eduardo Valentin
> <edubezval@gmail.com>
> Subject: Thermal governors non-modularity
> Importance: High
> 
> Hi Rui, Eduardo,
> 
> Is there any fundamental reason why thermal governors can't be built as
> modules? We have more and more of them, 5 now, and the most recent is
> fairly big... Would be much more practical if they could be built as modules
> and loaded at run-time only as needed.
> 
> Thanks,
> --
> Jean Delvare
> SUSE L3 Support

Re: Thermal governors non-modularity

[Eduardo Valentin]

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Hello

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 07:06:17AM +0000, Zhang, Rui wrote:
> I tried to use them as module in the first place, but failed for some reason. I cannot recall the root cause, but I will try to check this and reply to you later. :)
> 

Yeah, there was bug in the boot sequencing that would leave fans on all
the time. Then you decided to make everything builtin:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=136085598604095&w=2



> Thanks,
> rui
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jean Delvare [mailto:jdelvare@suse.de]
> > Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2016 9:05 PM
> > To: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
> > Cc: Zhang, Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>; Eduardo Valentin
> > <edubezval@gmail.com>
> > Subject: Thermal governors non-modularity
> > Importance: High
> > 
> > Hi Rui, Eduardo,
> > 
> > Is there any fundamental reason why thermal governors can't be built as
> > modules? We have more and more of them, 5 now, and the most recent is
> > fairly big... Would be much more practical if they could be built as modules
> > and loaded at run-time only as needed.

I agree here. We just to make sure we don't regress here.

BR,

> > 
> > Thanks,
> > --
> > Jean Delvare
> > SUSE L3 Support

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