Re: [PATCH] thermal: of: Allow selection of thermal governor in DT

From: Viresh Kumar
Date: Thu Mar 08 2018 - 00:42:34 EST


On 08-03-18, 11:05, Amit Kucheria wrote:
> Interestingly enough, there are some patches that make the thermal
> framework start earlier to deal with boot-time thermal issues. I
> expect to post them soon. :-) These are required, for example, if the
> device goes into a reboot loop - the device might not even make it to
> the point in userspace where the governors are setup. In such a loop,
> the temperature constantly keeps increasing.
>
> I was refering to the 'make defconfig' out-of-box experience that
> makes the majority of developer boards/devices out there stable to
> work on. I can't do that today.

Fair enough, but I am still not sure if we should put something that defines our
thermal policy into DT which should describe hardware.

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viresh