linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/6] thermal: Add Tegra SOCTHERM thermal management driver

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Message-ID: <53B55FE3.6010202@nvidia.com>
Date:	Thu, 3 Jul 2014 16:51:31 +0300
From:	Mikko Perttunen <mperttunen@...dia.com>
To:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>,
	"rui.zhang@...el.com" <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
	"edubezval@...il.com" <edubezval@...il.com>,
	"thierry.reding@...il.com" <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
	Peter De Schrijver <pdeschrijver@...dia.com>,
	Matthew Longnecker <MLongnecker@...dia.com>
CC:	"linux-pm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org" <linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] thermal: Add Tegra SOCTHERM thermal management driver



On 01/07/14 21:26, Stephen Warren wrote:
>
> Ah, so there's some manufacturing calibration process that sets some
> fuse value, and the HW uses a combination of that fuse value, and some
> parameters of the manufacturing process as represented by the
> SENSOR_CONFIG2 register, to apply the calibration? I wonder why
> SENSOR_CONFIG2 is a register not a fuse in that case, but anyway...
>
> Perhaps some comments or kerneldoc in the definition of struct
> tegra_tsensor would be useful?

Yes, I'll add some comments.

>
> Why not read THERMCTL_INTR_STATUS inside the IRQ thread. IIRC, if the
> ISR wakes an IRQ thread, the interrupt remains disable until the thread
> has run its course, so there's no issue deferring the register read
> until the thread runs, at which point, the thread can simply loop over
> all the sensors.
>

If that's the case, then that's definitely a better way to do it.
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