linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] thermal: core: Add helpers to browse the cdev, tz and governor list

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Message-ID: <766cbdeb2a0f9d9df4f68a71b4b0defd1e95e0be.camel@intel.com>
Date:   Wed, 01 Jul 2020 15:57:17 +0800
From:   Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>
To:     Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
        Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@...aro.org>
Cc:     Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>,
        Ram Chandrasekar <rkumbako@...eaurora.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] thermal: core: Add helpers to browse the cdev,
 tz and governor list

On Wed, 2020-07-01 at 09:35 +0200, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> On 30/06/2020 17:09, Zhang Rui wrote:
> > Hi, Daniel,
> > 
> > seems that you forgot to cc linux-pm mailing list.
> > 
> > On Tue, 2020-06-30 at 17:16 +0530, Amit Kucheria wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 8:15 PM Daniel Lezcano
> > > <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > The cdev, tz and governor list, as well as their respective
> > > > locks
> > > > are
> > > > statically defined in the thermal_core.c file.
> > > > 
> > > > In order to give a sane access to these list, like browsing all
> > > > the
> > > > thermal zones or all the cooling devices, let's define a set of
> > > > helpers where we pass a callback as a parameter to be called
> > > > for
> > > > each
> > > > thermal entity.
> > > > 
> > > > We keep the self-encapsulation and ensure the locks are
> > > > correctly
> > > > taken when looking at the list.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
> > > > ---
> > > >  drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c | 51
> > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > 
> > > Is the idea to not use thermal_helpers.c from now on? It fits
> > > perfectly with a patch I have to merge all its contents to
> > > thermal_core.c :-)
> > 
> > I agree these changes should be in thermal_helper.c
> 
> Oh, actually I remind put those functions in the thermal_core.c file
> because they need the locks which are statically defined in there.
> 
> If the functions are moved to thermal_helper.c that will imply to
> export
> the locks outside of the file, thus breaking the self-encapsulation.
> 
> Do you want to move them out?

Then no. I don't have any objection of removing thermal_helper.c, so
you can just leave these functions in thermal_core.c

thanks,
rui
> 
>