Re: [PATCH V3] cpufreq: qoriq: Register cooling device based on device tree

[Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 5:31 PM, Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 5:16 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
>> On Friday 26 February 2016 17:07:09 Li Yang wrote:
>>>
>>> I don't have a perfect solution either.  But I think this is still
>>> better than making cpufreq not usable.  The cpufreq driver will print
>>> out an error message if thermal is not reachable.  Maybe this can
>>> relief the confusion a little bit?
>>
>> With my patch, the configuration will just force the cpufreq
>> driver to be a loadable module as well if thermal is a module,
>> so the dependency can be resolved by loading the thermal module first.
>
> It would be perfect if this it true.  But I tried with the following
> change, it just makes QORIQ_CPUFREQ non-selectable if THERMAL=m.
>
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig b/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig
> index dcb972a38fbc..ca05037dd565 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig
> @@ -297,6 +297,7 @@ endif
>  config QORIQ_CPUFREQ
>         tristate "CPU frequency scaling driver for Freescale QorIQ SoCs"
>         depends on OF && COMMON_CLK && (PPC_E500MC || ARM)
> +       depends on !CPU_THERMAL || THERMAL=y
>         select CLK_QORIQ
>         help
>           This adds the CPUFreq driver support for Freescale QorIQ SoCs


I find we can achieve your desired result with the following change instead:

+       depends on (THERMAL=m && m) || THERMAL=y || THERMAL=n

Regards,
Leo