Re: [PATCH V2] thermal/drivers/hisi: Switch to interrupt mode

From: Daniel Lezcano
Date: Tue Dec 05 2017 - 01:49:54 EST


On 05/12/2017 03:00, Eduardo Valentin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 09:32:20AM +0200, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 02:57:52PM +0800, Leo Yan wrote:
>>> Hi Daniel,
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 07:13:44AM +0200, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>>>> At this moment, we have both the interrupt setup and the polling enabled. The
>>>> interrupt does nothing more than forcing an update while the temperature is
>>>> polled every second.
>>>>
>>>> We can do much better than that, threshold is set to 65C in the DT and the
>>>> passive cooling device enters in the dance when 75C is reached. We need to
>>>> sample the temperature at 65C in order to let the IPA gather enough values for
>>>> the PID computation. If the SoC is running at a temperature below 65C, we will
>>>> be constantly polling for nothing.
>>>>
>>>> This patch disables the sensor when the temperature is below 65C and enables it
>>>> when passing the threshold. It results the thermal sensor driver will have no
>>>> activity most of the time.
>>>>
>>>> Cc: Keerthy <j-keerthy@xxxxxx>
>>>> Cc: Leo Yang <leo.yan@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> s/Yang/Yan :) Have tested this patch on Hikey at my side:
>>
>> Oops sorry :)
>>
>>> Reviewed-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Tested-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>
> Is this still needed after the latest rework done?

No longer needed.



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