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From: Peter Feuerer <peter@piie.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/6] thermal: Added Bang-bang thermal governor
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 16:14:46 +0200
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To: Peter Feuerer <peter@piie.net>, Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>, Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>, Javi Merino <javi.merino@arm.com>

Hi Rui,

Peter Feuerer writes:

> The bang-bang thermal governor uses a hysteresis to switch abruptly on
> or off a cooling device.  It is intended to control fans, which can
> not be throttled but just switched on or off.
> Bang-bang cannot be set as default governor as it is intended for
> special devices only.  For those special devices the driver needs to
> explicitely request it.
> 
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>

Anything that prevents you from giving your acked-by?

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kind regards,
--peter;