[PATCH v3 00/17] Self-encapsulate the thermal zone device structure

[Daniel Lezcano]

On 23/02/2023 23:48, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> The exported thermal headers expose the thermal core structure while those
> should be private to the framework. The initial idea was the thermal sensor
> drivers use the thermal zone device structure pointer to pass it around from
> the ops to the thermal framework API like a handler.
> 
> Unfortunately, different drivers are using and abusing the internals of this
> structure to hook the associated struct device, read the internals values, take
> the lock, etc ...
> 
> rn order to fix this situation, let's encapsulate the structure leaking the
> more in the different drivers: the thermal_zone_device structure.
> 
> This series revisit the existing drivers using the thermal zone private
> structure internals to change the access to something else. For instance, the
> get_temp() ops is using the tz->dev to write a debug trace. Despite the trace
> is not helpful, we can check the return value for the get_temp() ops in the
> call site and show the message in this place.
> 
> With this set of changes, the thermal_zone_device is almost self-encapsulated.
> As usual, the acpi driver needs a more complex changes, so that will come in a
> separate series along with the structure moved the private core headers.
> 
> Changelog:
> 	- V3:
> 	   - Collected more tags
> 	   - Added missing changes for ->devdata in some drivers
> 	   - Added a 'type' accessor
> 	   - Replaced the 'type' to 'id' changes by the 'type' accessor
> 	   - Used the 'type' accessor in the drivers
> 	- V2:
> 	   - Collected tags
> 	   - Added missing changes for ->devdata for the tsens driver
> 	   - Renamed thermal_zone_device_get_data() to thermal_zone_priv()
> 	   - Added stubs when CONFIG_THERMAL is not set
> 	   - Dropped hwmon change where we remove the tz->lock usage
> 
> Thank you all for your comments

The series has been blocked by gsmtp because the next patch has too many 
Cc. I'll sort out this and resend.


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