RE: [RFC PATCH 0/12] generic thermal layer enhancement

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Hi All,

> The whole idea is
> 1) make sure we have multiple cooling states for both active cooling and
>    passive cooling devices. (patch 1,2,3)
> 2) remove passive specific requirement, aka, tc1/tc2, and
>    introduce .get_trend() instead, for both active and passive cooling
>    algorithm. (patch 4,5)
> 3) introduce new function thermal_zone_trip_update(), this contains the
>    code for the general cooling algorithm. (patch 6)
> 4) rename some thermal structures. Use thermal_instance instead of
>    thermal_cooling_device_instance, as this structure is used to
>    describe the behavior of a certain cooling device for a certain trip
>    point in a certain thermal zone.
>    thermal_zone_device has a list of all the thermal instances in this
>    thermal zone so that it can update them when the temperature changes.
>    thermal_cooling_device has a list of all the thermal instances for
>    this cooling device so that it can make decision which cooling state
>    should be in when the temperature changes. (patch 7,8,9,10)
> 5) introduce a simple arbitrator. (patch 11)
>    When temperature changes, we update a thermal zone in two stages,
>    a) thermal_zone_trip_point() is the general cooling algorithm to
>       update the thermal instances in the thermal zone device
>    b) thermal_zone_do_update() is the arbitrator for the cooling device
>       to choose the deepest cooling state required to enter.
> 6) unify the code for both passive and active cooling.
> 
> TODO, add locking mechanism. I know this is important but as this patch
> set changes the thermal layer a lot, I just want to make sure I'm in the
> right direction before going on.
> 
> BTW, in theory, they should make no change to the behavior of the
> current generic thermal layer users. But I have just done the build
> test.

I talked to Rui about this patch set and my other patch sets.
Rui suggested me to rebase my patches on top of his changes.

So, I hope Rui will be able to clean up these 12 patches and submit them
(in a week's time :-) 
I will rebase my patches on top of them.

Also, Rui promised me that he can host a tree for us to easily pick up changes, 
Let us see :-)

Thanks,
Durga
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