Re: [PATCH v3 1/8] thermal: core: Add mechanism for connecting trips with driver data

[Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>]

On 02/08/2023 18:48, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

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>> Let me check if I can do something on top of your series to move it in
>> the ACPI driver.
> 
> It doesn't need to be on top of my series, so if you have an idea,
> please just let me know what it is.
> 
> It can't be entirely in the ACPI driver AFAICS, though, because
> trips[i] need to be modified on updates and they belong to the core.
> Hence, the driver needs some help from the core to get to them.  It
> can be something like "this is my trip tag and please give me the
> address of the trip matching it" or similar, but it is needed, because
> the driver has to assume that the trip indices used by it initially
> may change.

May be I'm missing something but driver_ref does not seems to be used 
except when assigning it, no?

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