Re: [PATCH v8 7/8] thermal: Add PCIe cooling driver

[Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@Huawei.com>]

On Wed,  9 Oct 2024 12:52:22 +0300
Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com> wrote:

> Add a thermal cooling driver to provide path to access PCIe bandwidth
> controller using the usual thermal interfaces.
> 
> A cooling device is instantiated for controllable PCIe Ports from the
> bwctrl service driver.
> 
> If registering the cooling device fails, allow bwctrl's probe to
> succeed regardless. As cdev in that case contains IS_ERR() pseudo
> "pointer", clean that up inside the probe function so the remove side
> doesn't need to suddenly make an odd looking IS_ERR() check.
> 
> The thermal side state 0 means no throttling, i.e., maximum supported
> PCIe Link Speed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org> # From the cooling device interface perspective

Trivial thing noticed on a reread.


> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/Kconfig b/drivers/thermal/Kconfig
> index 61e7ae524b1f..d3f9686e26e7 100644
> --- a/drivers/thermal/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/thermal/Kconfig
> @@ -220,6 +220,15 @@ config DEVFREQ_THERMAL
>  
>  	  If you want this support, you should say Y here.
>  
> +config PCIE_THERMAL
> +	bool "PCIe cooling support"
> +	depends on PCIEPORTBUS
> +	help
> +	  This implements PCIe cooling mechanism through bandwidth reduction
> +	  for PCIe devices.

Technically links not devices, but don't think that matters much