Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] thermal: introduce by-name softlink | From | Daniel Lezcano <> | Date | Tue, 10 Dec 2019 15:36:07 +0100 |
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On 05/12/2019 08:19, Wei Wang wrote: > The paths thermal_zone%d and cooling_device%d are not intuitive and the > numbers are subject to change due to device tree change. This usually > leads to tree traversal in userspace code. > The patch creates `tz-by-name' and `cdev-by-name' for thermal zone and > cooling_device respectively.
Instead of adding another ABI, I suggest we put the current one deprecated with a warning in the dmesg, update the documentation and change the name the next version.
> Changes since v1 [1]: > * Split cooling device registration into a seperate patch > Changes since v2 [2]: > * Split improve error message in thermal zone registration > > [1]: v1: https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1139450/ > [2]: v2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/12/4/1291 > > Wei Wang (3): > thermal: prevent cooling device with no type to be registered > thermal: improve error message in thermal zone registration > thermal: create softlink by name for thermal_zone and cooling_device > > drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- > 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) >
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