Re: [PATCH] thermal: of: Introduce governor selection in dts

[Sudeep Holla]

On 10/08/15 18:47, Javi Merino wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 09:00:49AM +0100, Chung-Yih Wang (çåæ) wrote:
> > This patch was originally introduced when we made power_allocator the
> > default governor where we had issues in binding a thermal zone w/o
> > parameters to. Then we came out this facility for binding a specific
> > governor to a thermal zone in dts instead of the default governor.
> > Javi seems like this idea much.
>
> While I can understand why this is not suitable for devicetree, we
> should have a way in the kernel to configure different governors for
> different thermal zones defined in device tree.  Thermal zones defined
> from platform code can choose the thermal governor when they are
> registered.
>
> If this information can't go in device tree, where can we put it? As
> an additional parameter to thermal_zone_of_sensor_register()?

Why can't it be via sysfs allowing users to select their choice of
governor ? (like cpuidle/freq or even devfreq I assume)

Regards,
Sudeep
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