Re: [GIT PULL] Thermal management updates for v4.17-rc1

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

On Friday, April 13, 2018 12:41:18 PM Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Friday, April 13, 2018 12:30:04 PM Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> > On 13/04/2018 11:28, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > 
> > [ ... ]
> > 
> > >>> It is okay to return 0 because this code-path (the default one) will be
> > >>> never hit by the driver (probe makes sure of it) - the default case is
> > >>> here is just to silence compilation errors..
> > >>
> > >> The init function is making sure cal_type is one or another. Can you fix
> > >> it correctly by replacing the 'switch' by a 'if' instead of adding dead
> > >> branches to please gcc?
> > >>
> > >> if (data->cal_type == TYPE_TWO_POINT_TRIMMING) {
> > >> 	return ...;
> > >> }
> > >>
> > >> return ...;
> > > 
> > > I'm not the one that added this switch statement (it has been there since
> > > 2011) and I would be happy to remove it. 
> > 
> > Actually the switch statement was fine until the cleanup.
> 
> I don't see how it was fine before as the driver has never used the default
> case (always used TYPE_ONE_POINT_TRIMMING or TYPE_TWO_POINT_TRIMMING).
> 
> Could you please explain this more?
> 
> > > However could we please defer
> > > this to v4.17 and merge the current set of Exynos thermal fixes/cleanups
> > > (they simplify the driver a lot and make ground for future changes)?
> > 
> > Regarding the latest comment, this can be fixed properly by 'return' (or
> > whatever you want which does not get around of gcc warnings).
> 
> Do you mean that you want the patch with switch statement removal?
> 
> Is incremental fix OK or do you want something else?

Danial has already posted it, I hope the fix is fine with you.

Also sorry for the delay with handling issue - I was on holiday last two
days and for some reason I was under (wrong) impression that the previous
fix has been in thermal tree (so I was quite surprised today reading this
mail thread).

Best regards,
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics