linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] Thermal management updates for v4.17-rc1

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Message-id: <2944702.qKZ0LXufY7@amdc3058>
Date:   Fri, 13 Apr 2018 10:55:10 +0200
From:   Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>
To:     Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>
Cc:     Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@...il.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux PM list <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Li, Philip" <philip.li@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Thermal management updates for v4.17-rc1

On Friday, April 13, 2018 01:39:05 PM Zhang Rui wrote:
> Hi, Eduardo,
> 
> On 四, 2018-04-12 at 21:08 -0700, Eduardo Valentin wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 09:55:19AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 10:08 PM, Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > could you please illustrate me what the kconfig & warning is?
> > > Just "make allmodconfig" and the warning is about a uninitialized
> > > variable.
> > > 
> > > Line 304 in drivers/thermal/samsung/exynos_tmu.c if my shell
> > > history
> > > is to be believed.
> > > 
> > >                 Linus
> > Yeah, this has also passed my local compilation error. Somehow my
> > gcc4.9
> > is not catching it. Using an older gcc (gcc4.6) does catch it.
> > 
> > Anyways, given that the conversion functions are written to cover
> > for unexpected cal_type, the right way of fixing this is to rewrite
> > the conversion functions to allow for returning error codes and
> > adjusting the callers as expected.
> > 
> > Rui, bzolnier, please consider the following fix:
> > 
> as it is late in this merge window, I'd prefer to
> 1. drop all the thermal-soc material in the first pull request which I
> will send out soon.
> 2. you can prepare another pull request containing the thermal-soc
> materials except the exynos fixes
> 3. exynos fixes with the problem solved can be queued for -rc2 or
> later.

Could you please just merge the obvious fix from Arnd instead?

[ it was posted two weeks ago and ACKed by me ]

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10313313/

Best regards,
--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics