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SubjectRe: [PATCH v1 05/13] thermal: core: Store trip pointer in struct thermal_instance
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On 21/09/2023 19:52, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
>
> Replace the integer trip number stored in struct thermal_instance with
> a pointer to the relevant trip and adjust the code using the structure
> in question accordingly.
>
> The main reason for making this change is to allow the trip point to
> cooling device binding code more straightforward, as illustrated by
> subsequent modifications of the ACPI thermal driver, but it also helps
> to clarify the overall design and allows the governor code overhead to
> be reduced (through subsequent modifications).
>
> The only case in which it adds complexity is trip_point_show() that
> needs to walk the trips[] table to find the index of the given trip
> point, but this is not a critical path and the interface that
> trip_point_show() belongs to is problematic anyway (for instance, it
> doesn't cover the case when the same cooling devices is associated
> with multiple trip points).
>
> This is a preliminary change and the affected code will be refined by
> a series of subsequent modifications of thermal governors, the core and
> the ACPI thermal driver.
>
> The general functionality is not expected to be affected by this change.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>

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