Andrzej Pietrasiewicz has proposed two patches at https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11506053/ and https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11506065/ to improve the thermal zone mode support. But there are still some issues left, and this patch set is made based on these two patches, to improve the handling of disabled thermal zone. Patch 1/6 to Patch 4/6 clean up the code and fix thermal_zone_device_update() to do nothing but cancelling the polling timer, for a disabled thermal zone. Patch 6/6 is a prototype patch. Patch 1-5 in this patch series make it possible to fix a known iwlwifi thermal issue, by registering the iwlwifi thermal zone device as disabled, and enable it after firmware ready. I'd like to get feedback from the iwlwifi experts to get it fixed. thanks, rui
