Re: [PATCH v5 3/6] thermal: Added Bang-bang thermal governor

[Peter Feuerer <peter@piie.net>]

Hi Javi,

Javi Merino writes:

> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 07:33:39PM +0000, Peter Feuerer wrote:
>> Hi Rui,
>> 
>> I wonder whether you've had time to apply my set of patches already?  Would 
>> you please be so kind to just send me a short reply?
> 
> The bang-bang governor was merged and is part of v3.18-rc2:
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8264fce6de03f3915e2301f52f181a982718a8cb

Thanks for your mail.

Seems like the other 5 patches of the series were not applied.  So I 
need to take care again, or?

kind regards,
--peter;


> 
> Cheers,
> Javi
> 
>> Peter Feuerer writes:
>> 
>> > Hi Rui,
>> > 
>> > Zhang Rui writes:
>> > 
>> >> On Sat, 2014-07-26 at 16:14 +0200, Peter Feuerer wrote:
>> >>> 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?
>> >>> 
>> >> NO.
>> >> 
>> >> I'll queue them for 3.18.
>> > 
>> > Are all 6 patches in for 3.18 as you promissed?
>> > 
>> > kind regards,
>> > --peter;
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