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authorEduardo Valentin <eduardo.valentin@ti.com>2013-08-15 11:34:17 -0400
committerAlex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org>2014-03-31 15:47:20 +0800
commit9385d912b0e89a9da731458cb2fe6d33472e1eda (patch)
treedd8f9c399f77aa81a8c3e04bc4537a477a41c61f /Documentation
parent3accd1f68e4c6f77bd51a288d0a9b623c656886f (diff)
drivers: thermal: make usage of CONFIG_THERMAL_HWMON optional
When registering a new thermal_device, the thermal framework will always add a hwmon sysfs interface. This patch adds a flag to make this behavior optional. Now when registering a new thermal device, the caller can optionally inform if hwmon interface is desirable. This can be done by means of passing a thermal_zone_params.no_hwmon == true. In order to keep same behavior as of today, all current calls will by default create the hwmon interface. Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Suggested-by: Wei Ni <wni@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Valentin <eduardo.valentin@ti.com> (cherry picked from commit ccba4ffd9eff6120a20cc7656458ac554aec4b0c) Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org>
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@@ -142,6 +142,11 @@ temperature) and throttle appropriate devices.
This is an optional feature where some platforms can choose not to
provide this data.
.governor_name: Name of the thermal governor used for this zone
+ .no_hwmon: a boolean to indicate if the thermal to hwmon sysfs interface
+ is required. when no_hwmon == false, a hwmon sysfs interface
+ will be created. when no_hwmon == true, nothing will be done.
+ In case the thermal_zone_params is NULL, the hwmon interface
+ will be created (for backward compatibility).
.num_tbps: Number of thermal_bind_params entries for this zone
.tbp: thermal_bind_params entries