[PATCH 4/4] thermal: bang-bang governor: act on lower trip boundary

[Sascha Hauer]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 02:54:26PM -0700, Eduardo Valentin wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 11:02:47AM +0800, Caesar Wang wrote:
> > From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>
> > 
> > With interrupt driven thermal zones we pass the lower and upper
> > temperature on which shall be acted, so in the governor we have to act on
> > the exact lower temperature to be consistent. Otherwise an interrupt maybe
> > generated on the exact lower temperature, but the bang bang governor does
> > not react.
> 
> What is the expected impact on polling driven zones that use bang bang
> after this change?

Polling driven zones may have to be one step cooler before the governor
reacts, otherwise the behaviour should be unaffected.

Sascha

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