linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 00/12] thermal OF rework

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Message-ID: <1aa3ae56-84ae-8a96-7a52-3181c47dcb07@linaro.org>
Date:   Mon, 25 Jul 2022 18:34:03 +0200
From:   Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
To:     Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...exp.org>, rafael@...nel.org
Cc:     rui.zhang@...el.com, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, khilman@...libre.com,
        abailon@...libre.com, lukasz.luba@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 00/12] thermal OF rework


Hi Rafael,

On 22/07/2022 21:59, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> The thermal framework initialization with the device tree appears to
> be complicated and hard to make it to evolve.
> 
> It contains duplication of almost the same thermal generic structures
> and has an assymetric initialization making hard any kind of serious
> changes for more complex features. One of them is the multiple sensors
> support per thermal zone.
> 
> In order to set the scene for the aforementioned feature with generic
> code, we need to cleanup and rework the device tree initialization.
> 
> However this rework is not obvious because of the multiple components
> entering in the composition of a thermal zone and being initialized at
> different moments. For instance, a cooling device can be initialized
> before a sensor, so the thermal zones must exist before the cooling
> device as well as the sensor. This asynchronous initialization forces
> the thermal zone to be created with fake ops because they are
> mandotory and build a list of cooling devices which is used to lookup
> afterwards when the cooling device driver is registering itself.
> 
> As there could be a large number of changes, this first series provide
> some steps forward for a simpler device tree initialization.
> 
> More series for cleanup and code duplication removal will follow.
> 
> Changelog:
> 
>   - v6:
>      - Folded patches 8, 9, 10
>      - Removed thermal_zone_get_trips() and thermal_zone_get_num_trips()
>      - Moved tz->ntrips => tz->num_trips changes into patch 11 to fix the
>        git bisecting
> 

I believe all the comments were addressed, is it fine if I merge this 
series ?


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