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Subject: Re: [PATCH] thermal: of: Allow selection of thermal governor in DT
To:     Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@linaro.org>,
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On 05/03/2018 19:36, Amit Kucheria wrote:
> From: Ram Chandrasekar <rkumbako@codeaurora.org>
> 
> There is currently no way for the governor to be selected for each thermal
> zone in devicetree. This results in the default governor being used for all
> thermal zones even though no such restriction exists in the core code.
> 
> Add support for specifying the thermal governor to be used for a thermal
> zone in the devicetree. The devicetree config should specify the governor
> name as a string that matches any available governors. If not specified, we
> maintain the current behaviour of using the default governor.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ram Chandrasekar <rkumbako@codeaurora.org>
> Signed-off-by: Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@linaro.org>

Why not create a kernel parameter (eg. thermal.governor=) ? So everyone
can gain benefit of this feature. And in order to specify that from the
DT, add the 'chosen' node and bootargs with the desired kernel parameter?


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