[PATCH] thermal: mt8173: minor mtk_thermal.c cleanups

Matthias Brugger matthias.bgg at gmail.com
Mon Feb 20 03:30:44 PST 2017



On 19/02/17 02:23, Eduardo Valentin wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 05:01:58PM +0800, Dawei Chien wrote:
>> Hi, Matthias,
>>
>> On Thu, 2017-02-09 at 22:25 +0100, Matthias Brugger wrote:
>>>
>>> On 02/08/2017 06:31 AM, Dawei Chien wrote:
>>>> Thermal driver should read TEMP_MSR3 if thermal bank with 4 sensors.
>>>> However, Currently thermal driver don't need read TEMP_MSR3 since
>>>> thermal controller only use 3 sensors for each thermal bank.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Dawei Chien <dawei.chien at mediatek.com>
>>>> ---
>>>
>>> Actually the commit message should state:
>>> Fixes: b7cf0053738c ("thermal: Add Mediatek thermal driver for mt2701.")
>>>
>>> ...and get backported to v4.9 and v4.10.
>>>
>>> Reviewed-by: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg at gmail.com>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Matthias
>>
>> Thank you for your review. I would add below commit message on next
>> version. However, currently 8173 thermal driver would not read TEMP_MSR3
>> since thermal driver only use 3 sensors on each bank, this patch would
>> not effect temperature.
>> Only if thermal driver use 4 sensors on any thermal bank, would read
>> third sensor two times, and lose fourth sensor of vale.
>> Fixes: b7cf0053738c ("thermal: Add Mediatek thermal driver for mt2701.")
>>
>
> Please send a new version with the tag in the commit message.
>

And don't forget to add stable at vger.kernel.org so that the fix ends up 
in the older kernels as well.

Regards,
Matthias



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