linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] thermal: introduce by-name softlink

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Message-ID: <20191211085400.GB500800@kroah.com>
Date:   Wed, 11 Dec 2019 09:54:00 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
Cc:     Wei Wang <wvw@...gle.com>, Wei Wang <wei.vince.wang@...il.com>,
        Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
        Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@...il.com>,
        Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@...durent.com>,
        Linux PM list <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] thermal: introduce by-name softlink

On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 09:54:11PM +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> On 10/12/2019 21:01, Wei Wang wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 6:36 AM Daniel Lezcano
> > <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 05/12/2019 08:19, Wei Wang wrote:
> >>> The paths thermal_zone%d and cooling_device%d are not intuitive and the
> >>> numbers are subject to change due to device tree change. This usually
> >>> leads to tree traversal in userspace code.

tree traversal is supposed to be done in userspace code :)

But what userspace code needs to do this, and for what?

thanks,

greg k-h