[PATCH v4 08/10] thermal/of: Pass cdev_id and introduce devm registration helper

From: Daniel Lezcano

Date: Tue May 26 2026 - 10:18:30 EST


Extend the OF cooling device registration to support an explicit
cooling device identifier (cdev_id), preparing for upcoming DT
bindings where cooling devices are identified by a tuple (device node,
id) instead of relying on child nodes.

Introduce a new helper:

devm_thermal_of_cooling_device_register()

which registers a cooling device using the device's of_node and an
explicit cdev_id. This complements the existing
devm_thermal_of_child_cooling_device_register() helper, which
remains dedicated to the legacy child-node based bindings.

Internally, factorize the devm registration logic into a common
helper to avoid code duplication.

Existing users are unaffected, as the child-based helper continues
to pass a default cdev_id of 0, preserving current behavior.

This change is a preparatory step for supporting indexed cooling
devices in thermal OF bindings.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/thermal/thermal_of.c | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
include/linux/thermal.h | 13 ++++++++
2 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_of.c b/drivers/thermal/thermal_of.c
index 0110b195f7a3..3584024b76f5 100644
--- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_of.c
+++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_of.c
@@ -558,6 +558,51 @@ static void thermal_of_cooling_device_release(void *data)
thermal_cooling_device_unregister(cdev);
}

+static struct thermal_cooling_device *
+__devm_thermal_of_cooling_device_register(struct device *dev, struct device_node *np,
+ u32 cdev_id, const char *type, void *devdata,
+ const struct thermal_cooling_device_ops *ops)
+{
+ struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev;
+ int ret;
+
+ cdev = thermal_of_cooling_device_register(np, cdev_id, type, devdata, ops);
+ if (IS_ERR(cdev))
+ return cdev;
+
+ ret = devm_add_action_or_reset(dev, thermal_of_cooling_device_release, cdev);
+ if (ret)
+ return ERR_PTR(ret);
+
+ return cdev;
+}
+
+/**
+ * devm_thermal_of_cooling_device_register() - register an OF thermal cooling device
+ * @dev: a valid struct device pointer of a sensor device.
+ * @cdev_id: a cooling device index in the cooling controller
+ * @type: the thermal cooling device type.
+ * @devdata: device private data.
+ * @ops: standard thermal cooling devices callbacks.
+ *
+ * This function will register a cooling device with device tree node reference.
+ * This interface function adds a new thermal cooling device (fan/processor/...)
+ * to /sys/class/thermal/ folder as cooling_device[0-*]. It tries to bind itself
+ * to all the thermal zone devices registered at the same time.
+ *
+ * Return: a pointer to the created struct thermal_cooling_device or an
+ * ERR_PTR. Caller must check return value with IS_ERR*() helpers.
+ */
+struct thermal_cooling_device *
+devm_thermal_of_cooling_device_register(struct device *dev, u32 cdev_id,
+ const char *type, void *devdata,
+ const struct thermal_cooling_device_ops *ops)
+{
+ return __devm_thermal_of_cooling_device_register(dev, dev->of_node, cdev_id,
+ type, devdata, ops);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devm_thermal_of_cooling_device_register);
+
/**
* devm_thermal_of_child_cooling_device_register() - register an OF thermal cooling
* device
@@ -584,17 +629,6 @@ devm_thermal_of_child_cooling_device_register(struct device *dev,
const char *type, void *devdata,
const struct thermal_cooling_device_ops *ops)
{
- struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev;
- int ret;
-
- cdev = thermal_of_cooling_device_register(np, 0, type, devdata, ops);
- if (IS_ERR(cdev))
- return cdev;
-
- ret = devm_add_action_or_reset(dev, thermal_of_cooling_device_release, cdev);
- if (ret)
- return ERR_PTR(ret);
-
- return cdev;
+ return __devm_thermal_of_cooling_device_register(dev, np, 0, type, devdata, ops);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devm_thermal_of_child_cooling_device_register);
diff --git a/include/linux/thermal.h b/include/linux/thermal.h
index fb7649439dfa..81be6e6061b3 100644
--- a/include/linux/thermal.h
+++ b/include/linux/thermal.h
@@ -206,6 +206,11 @@ thermal_of_cooling_device_register(struct device_node *np, u32 cdev_id,
const char *type, void *data,
const struct thermal_cooling_device_ops *ops);

+struct thermal_cooling_device *
+devm_thermal_of_cooling_device_register(struct device *dev, u32 cdev_id,
+ const char *type, void *devdata,
+ const struct thermal_cooling_device_ops *ops);
+
struct thermal_cooling_device *
devm_thermal_of_child_cooling_device_register(struct device *dev,
struct device_node *np,
@@ -233,6 +238,14 @@ thermal_of_cooling_device_register(struct device_node *np, u32 cdev_id,
return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
}

+static inline struct thermal_cooling_device *
+devm_thermal_of_cooling_device_register(struct device *dev, u32 cdev_id,
+ const char *type, void *devdata,
+ const struct thermal_cooling_device_ops *ops)
+{
+ return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
+}
+
static inline struct thermal_cooling_device *
devm_thermal_of_child_cooling_device_register(struct device *dev,
struct device_node *np,
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