Re: [PATCH] thermal: core: Print out thermal zone name on update_temperature error

[Daniel Lezcano]

Hi Konrad,

[Cc: Angelo]

On 19/12/2023 12:48, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
> On 18.12.2023 20:40, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 3:40 PM Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Currently, we can encounter an error like this:
> > >
> > >    thermal thermal_zone48: failed to read out thermal zone (-19)
> > >
> > > It's good to know that there's been an issue, but on some occasions
> > > (like the error happening in the middle of a platform crash), one may
> > > not be able to look up what kind of thermal zone that is.
> > >
> > > Add the TZ name to the error message in order to speed up debugging.
> >
> > s/name/type/ ?  It looks like that's what you mean.
> >
> > First, the tz type is not its name (because there may be multiple
> > zones of the same type) and it would be consistent with the first
> > paragraph above.
> That's possible, I'm no expert wrt thermal :)
>
> Would you be okay with this change, together with an amended commit
> message?

Angelo is looking for how to sort out the name vs type confusion [1].

May be you should wait he comes with a proposal before updating the message?

[1] 
https://lore.kernel.org/all/3428b2af-5522-4090-995a-10eaee90c28e@xxxxxxxxxx/

--
<http://www.linaro.org/> Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs

Follow Linaro:  <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Linaro> Facebook |
<http://twitter.com/#!/linaroorg> Twitter |
<http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog/> Blog