Re: [PATCH] thermal/drivers/sun8i: Don't fail probe due to zone registration failure

[Vasily Khoruzhick]

On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 8:05 AM Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Currently the sun8i thermal driver will fail to probe if any of the
> thermal zones it is registering fails to register with the thermal core.
> Since we currently do not define any trip points for the GPU thermal
> zones on at least A64 or H5 this means that we have no thermal support
> on these platforms:
>
> [    1.698703] thermal_sys: Failed to find 'trips' node
> [    1.698707] thermal_sys: Failed to find trip points for thermal-sensor id=1
>
> even though the main CPU thermal zone on both SoCs is fully configured.
> This does not seem ideal, while we may not be able to use all the zones
> it seems better to have those zones which are usable be operational.
> Instead just carry on registering zones if we get any non-deferral
> error, allowing use of those zones which are usable.
>
> This means that we also need to update the interrupt handler to not
> attempt to notify the core for events on zones which we have not
> registered, I didn't see an ability to mask individual interrupts and
> I would expect that interrupts would still be indicated in the ISR even
> if they were masked.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Vasily Khoruzhick <anarsoul@xxxxxxxxx>