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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 0/2] Add a generic virtual thermal sensor
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On 17/09/2021 15:33, Alexandre Bailon wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> On 9/17/21 2:41 PM, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>> On 17/09/2021 09:27, Alexandre Bailon wrote:
>>> This series add a virtual thermal sensor.
>>> It could be used to get a temperature using some thermal sensors.
>>> Currently, the supported operations are max, min and avg.
>>> The virtual sensor could be easily extended to support others
>>> operations.
>>>
>>> Note:
>>> Currently, thermal drivers must explicitly register their sensors to
>>> make them
>>> available to the virtual sensor.
>>> This doesn't seem a good solution to me and I think it would be
>>> preferable to
>>> update the framework to register the list of each available sensors.
>> Why must the drivers do that ?
> Because there are no central place where thermal sensor are registered.
> The only other way I found was to update thermal_of.c,
> to register the thermal sensors and make them available later to the
> virtual thermal sensor.
>
> To work, the virtual thermal need to get the sensor_data the ops from
> the thermal sensor.
> And as far I know, this is only registered in thermal_of.c, in the
> thermal zone data
> but I can't access it directly from the virtual thermal sensor.
>
> How would you do it ?

Via the phandles when registering the virtual sensor ?

Or is the problem you are mentioning related to the sensor module
loading after the virtual sensor ?

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