Re: [PATCH v1 0/3] iwlwifi: mvm: Thermal management fixes

[Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>]

"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> writes:

> There are a few thermal management shortcomings in the iwlwifi driver that are
> addressed by this series.
>
> First off, the fw_trips_index[] array field in struct iwl_mvm_thermal_device
> is only populated and never read, and the code populating it has problems,
> so patch [1/3] removes it.
>
> Second, iwl_mvm_thermal_zone_register() populates the trip table after passing
> it to thermal_zone_device_register_with_trips() which is too late, because it
> can get used before it is populated.  It also may as well use THERMAL_TEMP_INVALID
> as the "invalid temperature" value.  Both these issues are addressed by patch [2/3].
>
> Finally, iwl_mvm_send_temp_report_ths_cmd() accesses the trip tables used during
> thermal zone registration directly in order to obtain the current trip point
> temperature values, which is not guaranteed to work in the future, because the
> core will store the trips information in its own copy of the trip table - see
> this patch series:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/2728491.mvXUDI8C0e@kreacher/
>
> If possible, I'd like to route the $subject series through the thermal tree,
> it is requisite for the above one.

iwlwifi is getting a lot of patches lately, though I don't know if any
of them touch the thermal stuff. But if this patchset goes to the
thermal I am a bit worried about conflicts.

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