linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arm64: dts: mediatek: mt8183: remove thermal zones without trips.

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Message-ID: <bf4d4cdf-27a1-7e09-59dc-25a8646fad1f@baylibre.com>
Date:   Tue, 20 Sep 2022 17:16:55 +0200
From:   Amjad Ouled-Ameur <aouledameur@...libre.com>
To:     Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
        Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>
Cc:     Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: dts: mediatek: mt8183: remove thermal zones
 without trips.

Hi,

On 9/15/22 17:50, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> On 14/09/2022 16:15, Matthias Brugger wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 14/09/2022 15:13, Amjad Ouled-Ameur wrote:
>>> Thermal zones without trip point are not registered by thermal core.
>>>
>>> tzts1 ~ tzts6 zones of mt8183 were intially introduced for test-purpose
>>> only but are not supposed to remain on DT.
>>>
>>> Remove the zones above and keep only cpu_thermal.
>>>
>>
>> My understanding is that this thermal zones exist but are not used. 
>> DTS should describe the HW as it is, so I propose to add
>> status = "disabled";
>> to the zones.
>>
>
> At least the trip points must be declared as stated in the bindings
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/thermal-zones.yaml#n213 
>
>
In the base case we should but there are no trip points for these 
sensors according to MediaTek.


Regards,

Amjad