Re: [PATCH] thermal: tegra: allow sensor registeration to fail

From: Eduardo Valentin
Date: Mon Dec 04 2017 - 21:46:50 EST


Hello,

On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 04:54:13PM -0700, Nicolin Chen wrote:
> Not all sensors may be used on a platform. So there could be
> some missing thermal zones in the Device Tree. However, the
> the driver now errors out whenever a sensor fails to register
> the thermal zone.
>
> Since the driver could live with other sensors, this change
> allows other sensors to continue the registerations even if
> one sensor fails to register.

What would be the use case you want to have your chip running with
failed to probe thermal zones ? If they are failing to probe
shouldnt you fix the DT nodes?

a system with correct DT, failed to probe zones is a real bug.
Either in the DT or in the code.

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> Signed-off-by: Nicolin Chen <nicoleotsuka@xxxxxxxxx>
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