Re: [PATCH v5 00/18] add thermal driver for h6

[OndÅej Jirman]

Hello Maxime,

On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 09:27:35AM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, Sep 01, 2019 at 11:52:14PM +0200, OndÅej Jirman wrote:
> > Hello Yangtao,
> >
> > On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 05:28:11AM +0000, Yangtao Li wrote:
> > > This patchset add support for A64, H3, H5, H6 and R40 thermal sensor.
> > >
> > > Thx to Icenowy and Vasily.
> > >
> > > BTY, do a cleanup in thermal makfile.
> >
> > I've added support for A83T and also some cleanups, according to my
> > feedback:
> >
> > https://megous.com/git/linux/log/?h=ths-5.3
> >
> > Feel free to pick up whatever you like from that tree.
> >
> > For others, there are also DTS patches in that tree for H3, H5, A83T, and H6, so
> > that shoul make testing of this driver easier.
> 
> I'm not convinced that always expanding the number of SoC supported is
> the best strategy to get this merged. Usually, keeping the same
> feature set across version, consolidating that, and then once it's in
> sending the new SoC support works best.

That's fine and all, but I've mostly added DT descriptions for already supported
SoCs and fixed bugs in the driver, so that people can actually test the existing
driver.

I think adding DT changes will actually help get needed exposure for this
patch series.

A83T support that I added, was actually just a small change to the driver.

regards,
	o.

> Maxime
> 
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