Re: [PATCH v1 0/7] ACPI: thermal: Use trip point table to register thermal zones

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Wed Jul 19 2023 - 09:34:08 EST


On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 12:46 AM Daniel Lezcano
<daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Rafael,
>
> On 18/07/2023 20:01, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > This patch series makes the ACPI thermal driver register thermal zones
> > with the help of thermal_zone_device_register_with_trips(), so it
> > doesn't need to use the thermal zone callbacks related to trip points
> > any more (and they are dropped in the last patch).
>
> Yay!
>
> > The approach presented here is quite radically different from the
> > previous attempts, as it doesn't really rearrange the driver's
> > internal data structures, but adds the trip table support on top of
> > them. For this purpose, it uses an additional field in struct thermal_trip
> > introduced in the first patch.
> >
> > I have run it on my test-bed systems, but this is not too representative,
> > because they each have only one ACPI thermal zone with only one (critical)
> > trip point in it.
>
> Rui created some ACPI fake tables I was able to run them in a KVM
> machine with fake thermal zones.
>
> I can share the setup if you are interested in

Yes, please!