linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/8] thermal:cpu cooling:tegra: Provide deferred probing for tegra driver

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Date:	Mon, 17 Nov 2014 14:51:24 +0200
From:	Mikko Perttunen <mikko.perttunen@...si.fi>
To:	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>
CC:	Lukasz Majewski <l.majewski@...sung.com>,
	Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@...il.com>,
	Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
	Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@...e-electrons.com>,
	Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@...esas.com>,
	Linux PM list <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@...com>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>,
	Lukasz Majewski <l.majewski@...ess.pl>,
	Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@...auri.org>,
	Mikko Perttunen <mperttunen@...dia.com>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>,
	Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com>,
	linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] thermal:cpu cooling:tegra: Provide deferred probing
 for tegra driver

On 11/17/2014 01:43 PM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 12:47:33PM +0200, Mikko Perttunen wrote:
>> Tested-by: Mikko Perttunen <mikko.perttunen@...si.fi>
>>
>> One potential issue I can see is that if the cpufreq driver fails to probe
>> then you'll never get the thermal driver either. For example, Tegra124
>> currently has no cpufreq driver, so if CONFIG_CPU_THERMAL was enabled, then
>> the soctherm driver would never be able to probe. But I don't really have a
>> solution for this either.
>
> It doesn't seem like there's any code whatsoever to deal with cpufreq
> within the soctherm driver, so deferring probe based on something we're
> not using anyway seems rather useless.
>
> Thierry
>

My understanding is that there needs to be no code inside soctherm to 
handle it, as the cpufreq driver (cpufreq-dt) will register a cooling 
device that will then be bound to the soctherm sensors using the 
of-thermal device tree properties. At this moment, however, we don't 
have that cpufreq driver so this patch is still useless for Tegra.

Mikko

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