linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] thermal/core: Rename passive_delay and polling

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Date:   Thu, 10 Dec 2020 15:49:24 +0000
From:   Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@....com>
To:     Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
Cc:     rui.zhang@...el.com, amitk@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] thermal/core: Rename passive_delay and
 polling_delay with units



On 12/7/20 7:08 PM, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> The input unit used by the thermal framework is the msec but it uses
> the jiffies to set the timers.
> 
> As it is stored in the thermal zone device structure, everytime the
> timer is setup at each polling interval, the msecs to jiffies
> conversion happens. The jiffies is the unit the thermal framework is
> using, so keeping it under the jiffies instead of msecs will save some
> pointless conversion.

Make sense

> 
> Set the scene to directly store the delays under their jiffies
> form by adding to the variable name the 'ms' suffix.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
> ---


Reviewed-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@....com>