[PATCH V3] cpufreq: qoriq: Register cooling device based on device tree

Li Yang leoli at freescale.com
Sat Feb 27 05:04:59 AEDT 2016


On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 December 2015 00:58:26 Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>> On Thursday, November 26, 2015 05:21:11 PM Jia Hongtao wrote:
>> > Register the qoriq cpufreq driver as a cooling device, based on the
>> > thermal device tree framework. When temperature crosses the passive trip
>> > point cpufreq is used to throttle CPUs.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Jia Hongtao <hongtao.jia at freescale.com>
>> > Reviewed-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar at linaro.org>
>>
>> Applied, thanks!
>>
>
> I got a randconfig build error today:
>
> drivers/built-in.o: In function `qoriq_cpufreq_ready':
> debugfs.c:(.text+0x1f4688): undefined reference to `of_cpufreq_cooling_register'
>
> CONFIG_OF=y
> CONFIG_QORIQ_CPUFREQ=y
> CONFIG_THERMAL=m
> CONFIG_THERMAL_OF=y
>
> I think you need a 'depends on THERMAL' to prevent the driver from
> being built-in when THERMAL=m.

Maybe this is not the best approach.  The cpufreq feature itself
should be working independently without thermal framework.  I think we
should make the qoriq_cpufreq_ready() defined as null function if
THERMAL is not defined.

Regards,
Leo


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