Re: [RFC 0/8] Stop monitoring disabled devices

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On 4/9/20 1:10 PM, Andrzej Pietrasiewicz wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> W dniu 09.04.2020 o 12:29, Daniel Lezcano pisze:
>> On 07/04/2020 19:49, Andrzej Pietrasiewicz wrote:
>>> The current kernel behavior is to keep polling the thermal zone devices
>>> regardless of their current mode. This is not desired, as all such "disabled"
>>> devices are meant to be handled by userspace,> so polling them makes no sense.
>>
>> Thanks for proposing these changes.
>>
>> I've been (quickly) through the series and the description below. I have
>> the feeling the series makes more complex while the current code which
>> would deserve a cleanup.
>>
>> Why not first:
>>
>>   - Add a 'mode' field in the thermal zone device
>>   - Kill all set/get_mode callbacks in the drivers which are duplicated code.
>>   - Add a function:
>>
>>   enum thermal_device_mode thermal_zone_get_mode( *tz)
>>   {
>>     ...
>>     if (tz->ops->get_mode)
>>         return tz->ops->get_mode();
>>
>>     return tz->mode;
>>   }
>>
>>
>>   int thermal_zone_set_mode(..*tz, enum thermal_device_mode mode)
>>   {
>>     ...
>>     if (tz->ops->set_mode)
>>         return tz->ops->set_mode(tz, mode);
>>
>>     tz->mode = mode;
>>
>>     return 0;
>>   }
>>
>>   static inline thermal_zone_enable(... *tz)
>>   {
>>     thermal_zone_set_mode(tz, THERMAL_DEVICE_ENABLED);
>>   }
>>
>>   static inline thermal_zone_disable(... *tz) {
>>     thermal_zone_set_mode(tz, THERMAL_DEVICE_DISABLED);
>>   }
>>
>> And then when the code is consolidated, use the mode to enable/disable
>> the polling and continue killing the duplicated code in of-thermal.c and
>> anywhere else.
>>
>>
> 
> Thanks for feedback.
> 
> Anyone else?

Yes. :)

Please take a look at the following patchset (which I'm reviving currently):

	https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/10/17/926

It overlaps partially with your work so we need to coordinate our efforts.

Best regards,
--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics



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