[PATCH] ARM: dts: stm32: Enable thermal sensor support on stm32mp15xx-dhcor

Manivannan Sadhasivam manivannan.sadhasivam at linaro.org
Fri Sep 25 12:20:40 EDT 2020


On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 01:12:12PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On 9/25/20 4:21 AM, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On 24 September 2020 4:11:11 PM IST, Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
> >> On 9/24/20 7:16 AM, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 24 September 2020 4:55:35 AM IST, Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>
> >> wrote:
> >>>> Enable STM32 Digital Thermal Sensor driver for stm32mp15xx-dhcor
> >> SoMs.
> >>>>
> >>>> Fixes: 94cafe1b6482 ("ARM: dts: stm32: Add Avenger96 devicetree
> >> support
> >>>> based on STM32MP157A")
> >>>
> >>> The change looks good but what does this patch fixes? 
> >>
> >> The missing temp sensor, which helps you detect overheat of the SoC.
> >> That is esp. important on the 800 MHz AV96.
> > 
> > This doesn't quality as a "fix". Essentially you're just adding a missing feature and not fixing any issues. So please remove the fixes tag and resubmit. 
> 
> I would argue that if the system overheats and crashes, we want to know
> about that, possibly in advance so thermal throttling can be applied.
> Currently this is not possible and I think that is a bug.

No, this is not a _bug_. This is a missing feature that the current kernel
doesn't support and you know about that! The fact that you can trigger a crash
due to hw limitation doesn't qualify as a bug IMO. And you can do that by other
means also (CPU throttling without CPUFreq support etc...)

Anyway, I'll stop here and let Alex to make a call.

Either case, feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam at linaro.org>

Thanks,
Mani




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