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Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 11:18:05 -0600
From: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
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To: Eduardo Valentin <eduardo.valentin@ti.com>
CC: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>, Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>,
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Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] [RESEND PATCH V1 0/9] thermal: introduce DT thermal
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On 07/18/2013 07:53 AM, Eduardo Valentin wrote:
> Hello Guenter,
> 
> On 17-07-2013 18:09, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:17:19AM -0400, Eduardo Valentin
>> wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>> 
>>> As you noticed, I am working in a way to represent thermal
>>> data using device tree [1]. Essentially, this should be a way
>>> to say what to do with a sensor and how to associate (cooling)
>>> actions with it.
>>> 
>> Seems to me that goes way beyond the supposed scope of devicetree
>> data. Devicetree data is supposed to describe hardware, not its
>> configuration or use. This is clearly a use case.
> 
> Thanks for rising your voice here. It is important to know what
> hwmon ppl think about this.

I meant to find time to read Guenter's original email where he
initially objected to putting data into DT, and determine exactly what
was being objected to. I still haven't:-( However, the arguments that
Eduardo stated in his email do make sense to me; I agree that
temperature limits really are a description of HW. Details of which
cooling methods to invoke when certain temperature limits are reached
is also part of the HW/system design, and hence I would tend to agree
that they're appropriate to include in DT. Anyway, that's just my 2
cents on the matter:-)
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