[PATCH V11 6/6] thermal: bcm2835: add thermal driver for bcm2835 SoC

Stefan Wahren stefan.wahren at i2se.com
Thu Mar 30 12:12:19 PDT 2017


Hi Eduardo,

> Eduardo Valentin <edubezval at gmail.com> hat am 30. März 2017 um 06:57 geschrieben:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 09:58:09PM -0700, Eduardo Valentin wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 10:11:05PM +0000, Stefan Wahren wrote:
> > > Add basic thermal driver for bcm2835 SoC.
> > > 
> > > This driver currently make sure that tsense HW block is set up
> > > correctly.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Martin Sperl <kernel at martin.sperl.org>
> > > Signed-off-by: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren at i2se.com>
> > > Acked-by: Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net>
> > 
> > I see no issue with this driver at this point.
> > 
> > As I mentioned, the full series needs to go together. You either get an
> > Ack from OF maintainers, and I take the series, or you can add my
> > 
> > Acked-by: Eduardo Valentin <edubezval at gmail.com>
> > 
> > after fixing the small comment from Nobuhiro.
> > 
> 
> Based on other drivers that require negative values, I assume patches 1
> and 2 of these series are needed, but more for enforcing the API, given
> that the current of-thermal driver still retrieves the negative values
> from DTB [1].
> 
> A third option on top of what I suggested above is to split the series.
> Given that you could still get the proper coefficients
> with current of-thermal, I would suggest you to split this series into
> two (patches 1-2, 3-6) in your next version, so we avoid futher delays
> on the driver, while patches 1-2 waits for acks from OF side.

i revert patches #1, #2 and the slope value was still correct. So i will choose the third option and split the series.

Thanks
Stefan

> 
> [1] - https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9612613/



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