Re: [PATCH] thermal/core: Introduce user trip points

[Daniel Lezcano]

On 02/07/2024 13:03, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

[ ... ]

> > > Trips cannot be created on the fly ATM.
> > >
> > > What can be done is to create trips that are invalid to start with and
> > > then set their temperature via sysfs.  This has been done already for
> > > quite a while AFAICS.
> >
> > Yes, I remember that.
> >
> > I would like to avoid introducing more weirdness in the thermal
> > framework which deserve a clear ABI.
> >
> > What is missing to create new trip points on the fly ?
>
> A different data structure to store them (essentially, a list instead
> of an array).
>
> I doubt it's worth the hassle.
>
> What's wrong with the current approach mentioned above?  It will need
> to be supported going forward anyway.

So when the "user trip point" option will be set, a thermal zone will 
have ~ten(?) user trip points initialized to an invalid temperature ?


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