From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1425533AbcBSHVi (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Feb 2016 02:21:38 -0500 Received: from metis.ext.4.pengutronix.de ([92.198.50.35]:49278 "EHLO metis.ext.4.pengutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1424789AbcBSHVg (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Feb 2016 02:21:36 -0500 Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 08:21:32 +0100 From: Sascha Hauer To: Eduardo Valentin Cc: Matthias Brugger , Daniel Kurtz , Eddie Huang , "linux-pm@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org" , "kernel@pengutronix.de" , Zhang Rui , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] thermal: Add Mediatek thermal controller support Message-ID: <20160219072132.GM3939@pengutronix.de> References: <1448883753-19068-3-git-send-email-s.hauer@pengutronix.de> <20151217193332.GB7999@localhost.localdomain> <20160104141940.GI13058@pengutronix.de> <20160119072917.GA13237@pengutronix.de> <1454295246.22151.6.camel@mtksdaap41> <56C4A875.6080908@gmail.com> <20160218105603.GE3939@pengutronix.de> <20160218151552.GA1852@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160218151552.GA1852@localhost.localdomain> X-Sent-From: Pengutronix Hildesheim X-URL: http://www.pengutronix.de/ X-IRC: #ptxdist @freenode X-Accept-Language: de,en X-Accept-Content-Type: text/plain X-Uptime: 08:20:57 up 1 day, 19:05, 36 users, load average: 0.04, 0.03, 0.05 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2001:67c:670:100:1d::c0 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: sha@pengutronix.de X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on metis.ext.pengutronix.de); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-PTX-Original-Recipient: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 07:15:54AM -0800, Eduardo Valentin wrote: > Folks, > > > > I think the problem is, that Eduardo wants to see the hierachical thermal > > > zones being used. But there is still a discussion ongoing [1]. > > > > It seems the original Author lost interest in the hierarchical thermal > > zones. I am not convinced that we need hierarchical thermal zones for > > the Mediatek driver since from the five sensors we only need the maximum > > temperature (If this ever changes we could still rework it). > > > > Given the current speed of communication I am not willing to add > > another, possibly controversal, dependency to an otherwise simple > > driver. I am even less willing when concerns like these come after *v12* > > of this series. > > > > Eduardo, it would really help to get a word from you. > > Apologize for the long delays here. In fact I want the hierarchical > support on this driver. But given that it is not really a strong > dependency and the hierarchical support is still an ongoing development, > I don't see why we should not merge this driver. > > I also have had the chance to try it out in a board, and seams to work > for me. I am adding to my tree. Thanks for applying :) Sascha -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 |