linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/7] thermal: intel: hfi: Minimally initialize the Hardware Feedback Interface

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Message-ID: <20220103182459.GA5706@ranerica-svr.sc.intel.com>
Date:   Mon, 3 Jan 2022 10:24:59 -0800
From:   Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@...ux.intel.com>
To:     srinivas pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
        Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
        Linux PM <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
        the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
        "open list:DOCUMENTATION" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>,
        Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@...ux.intel.com>,
        Amit Kucheria <amitk@...nel.org>,
        Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@....com>,
        "Ravi V. Shankar" <ravi.v.shankar@...el.com>,
        Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri@...el.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/7] thermal: intel: hfi: Minimally initialize the
 Hardware Feedback Interface

On Sun, Jan 02, 2022 at 06:22:33PM -0800, srinivas pandruvada wrote:
> On Sun, 2022-01-02 at 13:46 -0800, Ricardo Neri wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 07:43:22PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 4:23 PM Ricardo Neri
> > > <ricardo.neri-calderon@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> [...]
> 
> > > This looks like it may be too general, because HFI is not a
> > > thermal-only thing.
> > 
> > > 
> > > Maybe cal it INTEL_HFI_THERMAL?
> > 
> > True. The *Enhanced* HFI introduces the concept of thread classes
> > [1]. I was
> > planning to wrap this patchset, which parses the HFI table and deals
> > with updates, as INTEL_HFI. The code that deals with classes would be
> > wrapped as INTEL_EHFI.
> > 
> > After this comment, so you still think that INTEL_HFI_THERMAL makes
> > more
> > sense?
> In general most of the configs for Intel thermal is has THERMAL suffix,
> so to be consistent may be add THERMAL also at the end.
> 
> You can still add INTEL_EHFI as a silent config, which user will not
> select. It will be selected by default with INTEL_HFI_THERMAL.

That makes sense to me. I will add the _THERMAL suffix to the config
option.

Thanks and BR,
Ricardo