Re: [PATCH V2 7/7] cpuidle/drivers/cpuidle-arm: Register the cooling device

From: Viresh Kumar
Date: Fri Feb 23 2018 - 00:35:08 EST


On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 8:59 PM, Daniel Lezcano
<daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Register the ARM generic cpuidle driver as a cooling device.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-arm.c | 5 +++++
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-arm.c b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-arm.c
> index ddee1b6..c100915 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-arm.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-arm.c
> @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
>
> #define pr_fmt(fmt) "CPUidle arm: " fmt
>
> +#include <linux/cpu_cooling.h>
> #include <linux/cpuidle.h>
> #include <linux/cpumask.h>
> #include <linux/cpu_pm.h>
> @@ -172,6 +173,10 @@ static int __init arm_idle_init(void)
> goto out_fail;
> }
>
> + ret = cpuidle_cooling_register();
> + if (ret)
> + pr_warn("Failed to register the cpuidle cooling device\n");
> +

Because you aren't going to use the return value here, it might be better
to change return type of cpuidle_cooling_register() as "void" and do
error printing from within that routine.