Hello Wei, On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 10:54:07AM +0800, Wei Ni wrote: > On 08/26/2014 08:12 PM, Eduardo Valentin wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 10:17:29AM +0800, Wei Ni wrote: > >> On 08/25/2014 07:07 PM, Eduardo Valentin wrote: > >>> Hello Wei Ni, > >>> > >>> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 02:29:47PM +0800, Wei Ni wrote: > >>>> Add more description for the "polling-delay" property. > >>>> Set "trips" and "cooling maps" as optional property, because > >>>> if missing these two sub-nodes, the thermal zone device still > >>>> work properly. > >>>> > >>>> Signed-off-by: Wei Ni <wni@xxxxxxxxxx> > >>>> --- > >>>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/thermal.txt | 10 ++++++---- > >>>> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > >>>> > >>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/thermal.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/thermal.txt > >>>> index f5db6b7..e3d3ed9 100644 > >>>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/thermal.txt > >>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/thermal.txt > >>>> @@ -136,8 +136,8 @@ containing trip nodes and one sub-node containing all the zone cooling maps. > >>>> > >>>> Required properties: > >>>> - polling-delay: The maximum number of milliseconds to wait between polls > >>>> - Type: unsigned when checking this thermal zone. > >>>> - Size: one cell > >>>> + Type: unsigned when checking this thermal zone. If this value is 0, the > >>>> + Size: one cell driver will not run polling queue, but just cancel it. > >>>> > >>> > >>> The description above is specific to Linux kernel implementation > >>> nomenclature. DT description needs to be OS agnostic. > >>> > >>>> - polling-delay-passive: The maximum number of milliseconds to wait > >>>> Type: unsigned between polls when performing passive cooling. > >>>> @@ -148,14 +148,16 @@ Required properties: > >>>> phandles + sensor > >>>> specifier > >>>> > >>>> +Optional property: > >>>> - trips: A sub-node which is a container of only trip point nodes > >>>> Type: sub-node required to describe the thermal zone. > >>>> > >>>> - cooling-maps: A sub-node which is a container of only cooling device > >>>> Type: sub-node map nodes, used to describe the relation between trips > >>>> - and cooling devices. > >>>> + and cooling devices. If missing the "trips" property, > >>>> + This sub-node will not be parsed, because no trips can > >>>> + be bound to cooling devices. > >>> > >>> Do you mean if the thermal zone misses the "trips" property? Actually, > >>> the binding describes both, cooling-maps and trips, as required > >>> properties. Thus, both needs to be in place to consider the thermal zone > >>> as a proper described zone. > >> > >> I moved the "trips" and "cooling-maps" to optional property, because if > >> missing these two properties, the thermal zone devices still can be > >> registered, and the driver can work properly, it has the basic function, > >> can read temperature from thermal sysfs, although it doesn't have trips > >> and bind with cooling devices. > > > > > > If a thermal zone is used only for monitoring, then I believe it lost > > its purpose. As Maybe a different framework shall be used, such as hwmon, > > for instance? > > Yes, if we only use it for monitoring, we can use hwmon. But we have > more functions base on these two thermal zone devices. We have a > skin-temperature driver, which used nct1008's remote and local > temperatures to estimator the skin temperature. As you know the thermal > framework is more powerful, the remote/local sensors can be register as > thermal zone, then the skin-temp driver can use thermal_zone_get_temp() > to read their temperatures and then estimator skin's temp. We also will > set trips and cooling devices for this skin-temp. In this case, don't you think it would make sense to create a thermal zone for the skin temperature and add the required sensors (including the nct1008) in it? > > Wei. > > > > > The purpose of a thermal zone is to describe thermal behavior of a > > hardware. As it is mentioned in the thermal.txt file. > > > > > >> > >> Thanks. > >> Wei. > >> > >>> > >>>> > >>>> -Optional property: > >>>> - coefficients: An array of integers (one signed cell) containing > >>>> Type: array coefficients to compose a linear relation between > >>>> Elem size: one cell the sensors listed in the thermal-sensors property. > >>>> -- > >>>> 1.8.1.5 > >>>> > >> > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tegra" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
