Re: [PATCH v2 3/7] thermal: intel: hfi: Minimally initialize the Hardware Feedback Interface

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

On Sun, 2022-01-02 at 13:46 -0800, Ricardo Neri wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 07:43:22PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 4:23 PM Ricardo Neri
> > <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
[...]

> > This looks like it may be too general, because HFI is not a
> > thermal-only thing.
> 
> > 
> > Maybe cal it INTEL_HFI_THERMAL?
> 
> True. The *Enhanced* HFI introduces the concept of thread classes
> [1]. I was
> planning to wrap this patchset, which parses the HFI table and deals
> with updates, as INTEL_HFI. The code that deals with classes would be
> wrapped as INTEL_EHFI.
> 
> After this comment, so you still think that INTEL_HFI_THERMAL makes
> more
> sense?
In general most of the configs for Intel thermal is has THERMAL suffix,
so to be consistent may be add THERMAL also at the end.

You can still add INTEL_EHFI as a silent config, which user will not
select. It will be selected by default with INTEL_HFI_THERMAL.

Thanks,
Srinivas


> 
> Thanks and BR,
> Ricardo
> 
> 
> [1].  
> https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/download/intel-architecture-instruction-set-extensions-programming-reference.html
>  , Chapter 13
>