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

[Mark Brown]

On Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 11:40:34AM +0200, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> On 22/07/2023 18:46, Mark Brown wrote:

> > It did seem to be a bit of an excessively strict requirement, I was
> > going to poke at that myself.  It does seem worthwhile doing the change
> > in the sun8i driver anyway, there might be some other issue that causes
> > registration to fail which would have the same issue.

> Why do you want a thermal zone if there is no trip point ?

It at least allows you to see what the hardware is monitoring.  It's not
terribly useful for thermal management (unless you're doing to try to do
something in userspace I guess) but it seems more helpful than
completely failing to register, especially given the knock on effects
when a single device registers multiple zones.

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