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From:   "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Date:   Tue, 20 Jun 2023 19:29:57 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] ythermal: core: report errors to governors
To:     Eduardo Valentin <evalenti@kernel.org>
Cc:     eduval@amazon.com, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
        Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>,
        Amit Kucheria <amitk@kernel.org>,
        Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>,
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On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 5:27 AM Eduardo Valentin <evalenti@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> From: Eduardo Valentin <eduval@amazon.com>
>
> Currently the thermal governors are not allowed to
> react on temperature error events as the thermal core
> skips the handling and logs an error on kernel buffer.
> This patch adds the opportunity to report the errors
> when they happen to governors.
>
> Now, if a governor wants to react on temperature read
> errors, they can implement the .check_error() callback.

Explaining the use case for this would help a lot.