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From: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
To: "Javi Merino" <javi.merino@arm.com>,
	"\"Chung-Yih Wang (王崇懿)\"" <cywang@google.com>,
	"Zhang Rui" <rui.zhang@intel.com>,
	"Eduardo Valentin" <edubezval@gmail.com>
Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>,
	Mark Rutland <Mark.Rutland@arm.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>, Pawel Moll <Pawel.Moll@arm.com>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>,
	"linux-pm@vger.kernel.org" <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>,
	"devicetree@vger.kernel.org" <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] thermal: of: Introduce governor selection in dts
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 10:07:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55C9BB53.1090001@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150810174723.GC2747@e104805>



On 10/08/15 18:47, Javi Merino wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 09:00:49AM +0100, Chung-Yih Wang (王崇懿) wrote:
>> This patch was originally introduced when we made power_allocator the
>> default governor where we had issues in binding a thermal zone w/o
>> parameters to. Then we came out this facility for binding a specific
>> governor to a thermal zone in dts instead of the default governor.
>> Javi seems like this idea much.
>
> While I can understand why this is not suitable for devicetree, we
> should have a way in the kernel to configure different governors for
> different thermal zones defined in device tree.  Thermal zones defined
> from platform code can choose the thermal governor when they are
> registered.
>
> If this information can't go in device tree, where can we put it? As
> an additional parameter to thermal_zone_of_sensor_register()?
>

Why can't it be via sysfs allowing users to select their choice of
governor ? (like cpuidle/freq or even devfreq I assume)

Regards,
Sudeep

  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-11  9:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-07  7:09 [PATCH] thermal: of: Introduce governor selection in dts Chung-Yih Wang (王崇懿)
2015-08-07  7:18 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2015-08-07 10:31 ` Mark Rutland
2015-08-10  8:00   ` Chung-Yih Wang (王崇懿)
2015-08-10 17:47     ` Javi Merino
2015-08-11  9:07       ` Sudeep Holla [this message]
2015-11-02 21:24         ` Eduardo Valentin

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