Re: [PATCH 8/8] thermal/drivers/cpu_cooling: Add the combo cpu cooling device

[Viresh Kumar]

On 05-02-18, 11:32, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> On 05/02/2018 05:17, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> > Right, but I thought the cooling-maps can help us specify different cooling
> > states for different cooling devices for the same trip point. Maybe my
> > understanding of that is incorrect.

Any inputs on this? I am still wondering if this can be done.

> At the first glance, it sounds interesting but I'm afraid that raises
> more corner-cases than it solves because we have to take into account
> all the combinations: cpuidle=0 && cpufreq=1, cpuidle=1 && cpufreq=0,
> cpuidle=1 && cpufreq=1 with dynamic code changes when the cpufreq driver
> is loaded/unloaded.
> 
> I'm not against this approach as well as merging all the cpu cooling
> devices into a single one but that won't be trivial and will need
> several iterations before reaching this level of features.
> 
> IMO, we should keep the current approach (but handle the cpufreq
> loading/unloading) and then iteratively merge all the cooling device
> into a single one with policy change at runtime which will automatically
> handle the cpufreq load/unload.

Surely we can do one thing at a time if that's the way we choose to do it.

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viresh