Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: Auto-register the driver as a thermal cooling device if asked

From: Viresh Kumar
Date: Wed Jan 30 2019 - 01:35:26 EST


On 30-01-19, 10:52, Amit Kucheria wrote:
> All cpufreq drivers do similar things to register as a cooling device.
> Provide a cpufreq driver flag so drivers can just ask the cpufreq core
> to register the cooling device on their behalf. This allows us to get
> rid of duplicated code in the drivers.
>
> In order to allow this, we add a struct thermal_cooling_device pointer
> to struct cpufreq_policy so that drivers don't need to store it in a
> private data structure.
>
> Suggested-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 11 +++++++++++
> include/linux/cpufreq.h | 9 +++++++++
> 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+)

Thanks for the rework. This looks good now.

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viresh