Re: [PATCH 2/3] thermal: Add Mediatek thermal controller support

Daniel Kurtz
2016-02-15T02:12:09Z

Hi Eduardo, Sascha,

On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Eddie Huang <eddie.huang@mediatek.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2016-01-19 at 15:29 +0800, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > Eduardo,
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 03:19:40PM +0100, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > > Hi Eduardo,
> > >
> > > >
> > > > That should remove the policy of computing the maximum from this driver.
> > > > Please have a look on the work being done [1] to add grouping and
> > > > aggregation of thermal zones. With that in place, you should be a matter
> > > > of configuring the grouping and selecting max as the aggregation function,
> > > > from the thermal core, instead in the driver. Which should give the
> > > > system engineer, more flexibility to compose whatever policy based on
> > > > the exposed sensors.
> > >
> > > I think the aggregation of thermal zones is quite useful when it comes
> > > to putting different chips together to a system. I am not so sure how
> > > useful it is to expose different thermal zones of a single SoC to the
> > > device tree.
> > > Currently the only control knob we have is the CPU frequency. When any
> > > of the sensors on the SoC gets too hot then the only thing we can do is
> > > to decrease the CPU frequency. This does not leave much space for
> > > configuration in the device tree.
> > > What I need to be able is to attach multiple sensors to one thermal
> > > zone. The aggregation patch series only partly solves that and I think
> > > is inconsistent, but I commented on the series directly.
> >
> > Any input on this? I really like to get this driver upstream as it is
> > currently blocking other Mediatek drivers.
> >
>
> Hi Eduardo,
>
> Do you have any comment about Sascha's response ? We really hope get
> your comment since Mediatek thermal driver already reviewed in public
> over half years, and we have other patches [0] [1] depend on thermal
> driver.
>
> [0]:
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2015-December/394084.html
> [1]:
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2016-January/401055.html

Friendly ping on the Mediatek thermal driver.
The "EFUSE" dependency has now landed in v4.5-rc4.
So, AFAICT, the only thing left that may be blocking landing Mediatek
thermal driver is resolution of this discussion about thermal zones.
Can we kindly resolve this soon so we have a chance to land it in v4.6.

Thanks,
-Dan