Re: [PATCH v6 0/4] Tegra124 soctherm driver

[Thierry Reding]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 12:43:09PM +0300, Mikko Perttunen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this series adds support for the thermal monitoring features of the
> soctherm unit on the Tegra124 SoC. 
> 
> The branch is also available in my github repo,
>   git://github.com/cyndis/linux.git soctherm-v6
> 
> Thanks,
> Mikko
> 
> Mikko Perttunen (4):
>   of: Add bindings for nvidia,tegra124-soctherm
>   ARM: tegra: Add soctherm and thermal zones to Tegra124 device tree
>   ARM: tegra: Add thermal trip points for Jetson TK1
>   thermal: Add Tegra SOCTHERM thermal management driver
> 
>  .../devicetree/bindings/thermal/tegra-soctherm.txt |  53 +++
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/tegra124-jetson-tk1.dts          |  44 ++
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/tegra124.dtsi                    |  47 ++
>  drivers/thermal/Kconfig                            |  10 +
>  drivers/thermal/Makefile                           |   1 +
>  drivers/thermal/tegra_soctherm.c                   | 471 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/dt-bindings/thermal/tegra124-soctherm.h    |  13 +
>  7 files changed, 639 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/tegra-soctherm.txt
>  create mode 100644 drivers/thermal/tegra_soctherm.c
>  create mode 100644 include/dt-bindings/thermal/tegra124-soctherm.h

One thing that I've wanted to start doing for a while now is request
patch submissions like this to come accompanied with a way on how to
test them. Ideally this would be in a scripted way that can test for
success programatically, but it doesn't necessarily have to be if it
turns out too difficult or impractical to do.

The goal is to eventually come up with a test suite that can run the
majority of test cases automatically to make it easy to test for any
regressions. And even if tests can't be run automatically it'd still
be an advantage to have them all collected in some repository, since
it saves a lot of typing and time to run tests, and it will give us
a standard set of tests that everybody can verify changes against.

I realize that it's somewhat unfair to start requesting this from you
now, but we've got to start somewhere. Could you give a short summary
of how you test this? What are the interfaces that the kernel exposes
for these thermal drivers?

Thierry

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