Re: [PATCH] acpi: move thermal trip handling to generic thermal layer

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On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 02:59:00PM +0800, Zhang Rui wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 01:55 +0800, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > The ACPI code currently carries its own thermal trip handling, meaning that
> > any other thermal implementation will need to reimplement it. Move the code
> > to the generic thermal layer.
> > 
> Are these ACPI stuffs generic enough to be ported to the generic thermal
> driver?
> e.g. the tc1, tc2, tsp, they are mentioned in the ACPI spec, 
> so my question is if the thermal zones than ACPI still have these
> concepts?

They're needed if you want to implement any sort of sensible 
implementation of passive cooling. They might not be expressed in quite 
the same way, but the basic concept is identical.
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