Re: [GIT PULL] Thermal-SoC management changes for v5.2-rc1

Stefan Wahren
2019-05-16T16:12:00Z

Hi Linus,

On 16.05.19 17:07, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 9:43 PM Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@gmail.com> wrote:
>> - thermal core has a new devm_* API for registering cooling devices, thanks to Guenter R.
>> I took the entire series, that is why you see changes on drivers/hwmon in this pull.
> This clashed badly with commit 6b1ec4789fb1 ("hwmon: (pwm-fan) Add RPM
> support via external interrupt"), which added a timer to the pwm-fan
> handling.
>
> In particular, that timer now needed the same kind of cleanup changes,
> and I'd like you guys (particularly Guenther, who was involved on both
> sides) to double-check my merge.
>
> The way I solved it was to just make the pwm_fan_pwm_disable()
> callback do both the pwm_diable() _and_ the del_timer_sync() on the
> new timer. That seemed to be the simplest solution that meshed with
> the new devm cleanup model, but while I build-tested the result, I
> obviously did no actual use testing. And maybe there's some reason why
> that approach is flawed.

i will try to test on our custom i.MX6 board. Unfortunately this take
some time since it isn't mainline yet (at least until tomorrow).

Stefan

>
> Guenther?
>
> Linus