linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] Add ACPI trip points parser helpers

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Message-ID: <4507a68d-6d46-927a-ee74-7245764d4edf@linaro.org>
Date:   Wed, 14 Dec 2022 15:42:04 +0100
From:   Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
To:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
Cc:     srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Add ACPI trip points parser helpers

On 14/12/2022 15:10, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 9:59 PM Daniel Lezcano
> <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org> wrote:
>>
>> Regarding thermal, the ACPI code parsing the trip points is duplicated
>> inside different Intel drivers. The generic ACPI thermal driver also
>> duplicates this code.
>>
>> Those ACPI parsing actions are used to define trip points and these
>> ones are defined by, and specific to, the backend driver.
>>
>> The different get_trip_* ops, also very similar between each other,
>> are using the specific trip point structure to return the requested
>> trip point information.
>>
>>  From there, there is nothing new, all this can be converted to the
>> generic trip point.
>>
>> The first patch provides the functions to parse trip point description
>> from the ACPI table but based on the generic trip point structure. The
>> other patches convert the different Intel driver to use the ACPI
>> functions along with a migration to the generic trip point.
> 
> First off, please resend this series with CCs to linux-acpi.
> 
> Second, what does it depend on?  I think that it depends on the new
> material that hasn't been integrated yet, doesn't it?

Right, I assumed the generic trip points series was in the way to be 
integrated


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