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On 06/07/2023 17:37, Nícolas F. R. A. Prado wrote:
> There are two kinds of temperature monitoring interrupts available:
> * High Offset, Low Offset
> * Hot, Hot to normal, Cold
> 
> The code currently uses the hot/h2n/cold interrupts, however in a way
> that doesn't work: the cold threshold is left uninitialized, which
> prevents the other thresholds from ever triggering, and the h2n
> interrupt is used as the lower threshold, which prevents the hot
> interrupt from triggering again after the thresholds are updated by the
> thermal framework, since a hot interrupt can only trigger again after
> the hot to normal interrupt has been triggered.
> 
> But better yet than addressing those issues, is to use the high/low
> offset interrupts instead. This way only two thresholds need to be
> managed, which have a simpler state machine, making them a better match
> to the thermal framework's high and low thresholds.

Reviewed-by: Alexandre Mergnat <amergnat@baylibre.com>

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Regards,
Alexandre