Re: [PATCH v2] thermal: Fail object registration if thermal class is not registered

[Daniel Lezcano]

On 23/01/2023 21:44, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> If thermal_class is not registered with the driver core, there is no way
> to expose the interfaces used by the thermal control framework, so
> prevent thermal zones and cooling devices from being registered in
> that case by returning an error from object registration functions.
>
> For this purpose, use a thermal_class pointer that will be NULL if the
> class is not registered.  To avoid wasting memory in that case, allocate
> the thermal class object dynamically and if it fails to register, free
> it and clear the thermal_class pointer to NULL.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx>


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