Re: [PATCH] dt-bindings: thermal: make cooling-maps property optional

[Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@linaro.org>]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 9:43 PM Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 8:22 PM Daniel Lezcano
> <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 09/03/2020 05:54, andy.tang@nxp.com wrote:
> > > From: Yuantian Tang <andy.tang@nxp.com>
> > >
> > > Cooling-maps doesn't have to be a required property because there may
> > > be no cooling device on system, or there are no enough cooling devices for
> > > each thermal zone in multiple thermal zone cases since cooling devices
> > > can't be shared.
> > > So make this property optional to remove such limitations.
> > >
> > > For thermal zones with no cooling-maps, there could be critic trips
> > > that can trigger CPU reset or shutdown. So they still can take actions.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Yuantian Tang <andy.tang@nxp.com>
>
> Reviewed-by: Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@linaro.org>
>
> >
> > Amit, I'm about to pick this patch, it will collide with the yaml
> > conversion changes.
>
> Thanks for the headsup. I can fixup v3 when I respin.
>
> However, I've always interpreted this binding as follows:
> - cooling-maps should be mandatory for active and passive trip types
> otherwise there will be no cooling
> - cooling-maps make no sense for critical trip type since we're
> invoking system shutdown
> - cooling-maps are optional for hot trip types.
>
> Is this your understanding too?
>
> We should be able to enforce this in YAML.

Rui, Daniel,

What do you think about the above interpretation of the cooling-maps bindings?

Regards,
Amit