linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/6] arm64: dts: socionext: Add missing cooling device properties for CPUs

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Message-ID: <20180604071435.moiw5t44yn3wvrvo@vireshk-i7>
Date:   Mon, 4 Jun 2018 12:44:35 +0530
From:   Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
Cc:     arm-soc <arm@...nel.org>, Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        ionela.voinescu@....com,
        Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
        chris.redpath@....com, DTML <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] arm64: dts: socionext: Add missing cooling device
 properties for CPUs

On 01-06-18, 12:25, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> 2018-05-25 14:40 GMT+09:00 Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>:
> > The cooling device properties, like "#cooling-cells" and
> > "dynamic-power-coefficient", should either be present for all the CPUs
> > of a cluster or none. If these are present only for a subset of CPUs of
> > a cluster then things will start falling apart as soon as the CPUs are
> > brought online in a different order. For example, this will happen
> > because the operating system looks for such properties in the CPU node
> > it is trying to bring up, so that it can register a cooling device.
> >
> > Add such missing properties.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
> 
> 
> Applied to linux-uniphier.
> 
> I had already sent a PR for v4.18-rc1 before I received this patch.
> Please wait for v4.19-rc1.

Sure, no hurry. Though I thought this kind of fixes can go in 4.18-rc2 as well,
isn't it ?

-- 
viresh