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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@codon.org.uk>
To: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: rui.zhang@intel.com, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, amitk@kernel.org,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] thermal/core: Make 'forced_passive' as obsolete candidate
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2020 01:11:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201213011105.GA21385@codon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6105a8e5-7590-5ba1-5f2b-aa24bf286150@linaro.org>

On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 12:39:26AM +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> On 12/12/2020 21:08, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > Anything that provides a trip point that has no active notifications and
> > doesn't provide any information that tells the kernel to poll it.
> 
> I'm not able to create a setup as you describe working correctly with
> the forced passive trip point.
> 
> The forced passive trip can not be detected as there is no comparison
> with the defined temperature in the thermal_zone_device_update() function.

The logic seems to be in the step_wise thermal governor. I'm not sure
why it would be used in thermal_zone_device_update() - the entire point
is that we don't get updates from the device?
 
> If my analysis is correct, this 'feature' is broken since years, more
> than 8 years to be exact and nobody complained.

I've no problem with it being removed if there are no users, but in that
case the justification should be rewritten - ACPI table updates aren't a
complete replacement for the functionality offered (and can't be used if
the lockdown LSM is being used in any case).

  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-13  1:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-08 15:30 [PATCH] thermal/core: Make 'forced_passive' as obsolete candidate Daniel Lezcano
2020-12-11 13:17 ` Daniel Lezcano
2020-12-12  3:50   ` Matthew Garrett
2020-12-12  9:11     ` Daniel Lezcano
2020-12-12 20:08       ` Matthew Garrett
2020-12-12 23:39         ` Daniel Lezcano
2020-12-13  1:11           ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2020-12-13 11:02             ` Daniel Lezcano

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