Re: [PATCH 3/3] thermal: broadcom: Add Stingray thermal driver

[Sudeep Holla]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 06:07:12PM +0300, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-05-28 at 11:11 +0530, Srinath Mannam wrote:
> > From: Pramod Kumar <pramod.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > This commit adds stingray thermal driver to monitor six
> > thermal zones temperature and trips at critical temperature.
>
> This matches an ACPI "BRCM0500" device but then calls
> devm_thermal_zone_of_sensor_register(), which AFAICT is going to fail
> on an ACPI system because the first thing that does is call
> of_find_node_by_name(NULL, "thermal-zones") which isn't going to find a
> match.
>

Thanks David for bringing this up. I hadn't noticed that this driver is
cheekily trying to do thermal management in ACPI using crafty
acpi_device_id match. ACPI thermal objects/methods must be used in the
firmware to do thermal management.

Pramod, can you remove the ACPI support or I can go ahead and post the
patch to do the same ?

> How does this work in the ACPI case?

It can't and shouldn't work if one can make it happen :)

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Regards,
Sudeep