This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled dt-bindings: thermal: Fix definition of cooling-maps contribution property to the 5.16-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: dt-bindings-thermal-fix-definition-of-cooling-maps-c.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.16 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 977fb4c1a27296197a707ba343618c3bd3b2d3ce Author: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Nov 9 11:30:45 2021 +0100 dt-bindings: thermal: Fix definition of cooling-maps contribution property [ Upstream commit 49bcb1506f2e095262c01bda7fd1c0db524c91e2 ] When converting the thermal-zones bindings to yaml the definition of the contribution property changed. The intention is the same, an integer value expressing a ratio of a sum on how much cooling is provided by the device to the zone. But after the conversion the integer value is limited to the range 0 to 100 and expressed as a percentage. This is problematic for two reasons. - This do not match how the binding is used. Out of the 18 files that make use of the property only two (ste-dbx5x0.dtsi and ste-hrefv60plus.dtsi) sets it at a value that satisfy the binding, 100. The remaining 16 files set the value higher and fail to validate. - Expressing the value as a percentage instead of a ratio of the sum is confusing as there is nothing to enforce the sum in the zone is not greater then 100. This patch restore the pre yaml conversion description and removes the value limitation allowing the usage of the bindings to validate. Fixes: 1202a442a31fd2e5 ("dt-bindings: thermal: Add yaml bindings for thermal zones") Reported-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211109103045.1403686-1-niklas.soderlund+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/thermal-zones.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/thermal-zones.yaml index a07de5ed0ca6a..2d34f3ccb2572 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/thermal-zones.yaml +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/thermal-zones.yaml @@ -199,12 +199,11 @@ patternProperties: contribution: $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32 - minimum: 0 - maximum: 100 description: - The percentage contribution of the cooling devices at the - specific trip temperature referenced in this map - to this thermal zone + The cooling contribution to the thermal zone of the referred + cooling device at the referred trip point. The contribution is + a ratio of the sum of all cooling contributions within a + thermal zone. required: - trip