Re: [PATCH] dt-bindings: thermal: make cooling-maps property optional

From: Rob Herring
Date: Mon Mar 23 2020 - 15:56:42 EST


On Mon, 9 Mar 2020 12:54:11 +0800, andy.tang@xxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Yuantian Tang <andy.tang@xxxxxxx>
>
> Cooling-maps doesn't have to be a required property because there may
> be no cooling device on system, or there are no enough cooling devices for
> each thermal zone in multiple thermal zone cases since cooling devices
> can't be shared.
> So make this property optional to remove such limitations.
>
> For thermal zones with no cooling-maps, there could be critic trips
> that can trigger CPU reset or shutdown. So they still can take actions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yuantian Tang <andy.tang@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/thermal.txt | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>

Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>