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From:   "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed, 22 Feb 2023 21:06:09 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 06/16] thermal: Don't use 'device' internal thermal
 zone structure field
To:     Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Balsam CHIHI <bchihi@baylibre.com>,
        Amit Kucheria <amitk@kernel.org>,
        Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>,
        Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>,
        Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>,
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        Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>,
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        Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@gmail.com>,
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On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 9:00 PM Daniel Lezcano
<daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On 22/02/2023 20:43, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 7:07 PM Daniel Lezcano
> > <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Some drivers are directly using the thermal zone's 'device' structure
> >> field.
> >>
> >> Use the driver device pointer instead of the thermal zone device when
> >> it is available.
> >>
> >> Remove the traces when they are duplicate with the traces in the core
> >> code.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
> >> Reviewed-by: Balsam CHIHI <bchihi@baylibre.com> #Mediatek LVTS
> >> ---
>
> [ ... ]
>
> >>          thermal_zone_device_update(data->ti_thermal, THERMAL_EVENT_UNSPECIFIED);
> >>
> >> -       dev_dbg(&data->ti_thermal->device, "updated thermal zone %s\n",
> >> +       dev_dbg(data->bgp->dev, "updated thermal zone %s\n",
> >>                  data->ti_thermal->type);
> >
> > The code before the change is more consistent, because it refers to
> > the same object in both instances.
> >
> > It looks like a type field accessor is needed, eg. thermal_zone_device_type()?
> >
> > Or move the debug message to thermal_zone_device_update()?
>
> Actually it is done on purpose because the patch 9 replaces the accesses
> to 'type' by 'id', the thermal_zone_device_type() accessor won't be needed.

Cool.

However, this is a change in behavior (albeit small) which doesn't
appear to be necessary.

What would be wrong with having a tz->type accessor too?