[RFC PATCH 10/11] omap4: thermal: add basic CPU thermal zone

Cousson, Benoit b-cousson at ti.com
Tue May 29 08:54:22 EDT 2012


On 5/28/2012 12:26 PM, Valentin, Eduardo wrote:
> Hello Santosh,
>
> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Felipe Balbi<balbi at ti.com>  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 03:03:26PM +0530, Shilimkar, Santosh wrote:
>>> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Eduardo Valentin
>>> <eduardo.valentin at ti.com>  wrote:
>>>> This patch exposes OMAP4 thermal sensor as a thermal zone
>>>> named "cpu". Only thermal creation is done here.
>>>>
>>>> TODO:
>>>>
>>>>   - Add cooling bindings
>>>>   - Add extrapolation rules
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Valentin<eduardo.valentin at ti.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>   drivers/thermal/Kconfig         |   12 ++++++
>>>>   drivers/thermal/Makefile        |    1 +
>>>>   drivers/thermal/omap-bandgap.c  |    1 +
>>>>   drivers/thermal/omap-bandgap.h  |   12 ++++++
>>>>   drivers/thermal/omap4-thermal.c |   72 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>   5 files changed, 98 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>>>   create mode 100644 drivers/thermal/omap4-thermal.c
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/Kconfig b/drivers/thermal/Kconfig
>>>> index ffdd240..2e82797 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/thermal/Kconfig
>>>> +++ b/drivers/thermal/Kconfig
>>>> @@ -39,3 +39,15 @@ config OMAP_BANDGAP
>>>>           This includes alert interrupts generation and also the TSHUT
>>>>           support.
>>>>
>>>> +config OMAP4_THERMAL
>>>> +       bool "Texas Instruments OMAP4 thermal support"
>>>> +       depends on OMAP_BANDGAP
>>>> +       depends on ARCH_OMAP4
>>>> +       help
>>>> +         If you say yes here you get thermal support for the Texas Instruments
>>>> +         OMAP4 SoC family. The current chip supported are:
>>>> +          - OMAP4460
>>>> +
>>> It's more of IP feature than OMAP specific, so something like
>>>
>>> config  HAVE_BANDGAP_THERMAL_SUPPORT
>>>
>>> and then let processor's which support enable it. That OMAP varients
>>> in AMXX etc if needed can make use of it.
>>
>> Those are just an OMAP in disguise.
>>
>>> If you agree, then rest of the driver also can be cleaned to avoid
>>> omap_* in file names and variables.
>>>
>>> Apart from this minor comment, rest of the patch looks fine to me.
>>
>> Then it will appear as a fully generic bandgap driver, which is not the
>> case. This is really a TI thing, right ?
>
> I have to agree with Felipe here. I do see your point to have a name
> which is applicable to AMxx, but having such generic naming is not
> helping either :-( as this bandgap driver is not supposed to be
> generic.
>
> I though of "ti_bandgap.*", but still seams to be misleading..

Yeah, I guess omap_bandgap is good enough. This issues is mainly due to 
the version in OMAP4 for my point of view.

Benoit



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