linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 09/12] thermal/core: Register with the trip points

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Date:   Tue, 5 Jul 2022 15:59:48 +0200
From:   "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
To:     Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>
Cc:     Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...exp.org>,
        Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Linux PM <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Kevin Hilman <khilman@...libre.com>,
        Alexandre Bailon <abailon@...libre.com>,
        Amit Kucheria <amitk@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 09/12] thermal/core: Register with the trip points

On Tue, Jul 5, 2022 at 4:03 AM Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2022-07-03 at 20:30 +0200, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> > As we added the thermal trip points structure in the thermal zone,
> > let's extend the thermal zone register function to have the thermal
> > trip structures as a parameter and store it in the 'trips' field of
> > the thermal zone structure.
>
> Just FYI.
>
> I proposed a small topic for this year' LPC about the
> thermal_zone_device_register() parameters.
> We have more and more parameters introduced, IMO, it's better to use a
> unified structure for registration phase configurations, or reuse
> struct thermal_zone_params.
> In this way, when a new parameter is needed, we only need to introduce
> a new field in the structure, rather than update every caller of this
> API, or introduce new wrapper functions like we did in this patch.

Sounds reasonable to me.