Feature request in phosphor-pid-control

[Patrick Venture]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 7:21 PM Lei YU <mine260309 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > So, this change really is just, "don't fail if you can't find the
> > sensor during start-up, and keep trying until it shows up"
> >
> > Does that follow?
>
> Pretty much close.
> More like "in any case, don't fail if you can't find the the sensor, and keep
> trying".
> Note this is applicable to sensors that are unavailable.
>
> For sensors that are expected to be treated as fault, it should trigger
> failsafe, and this is discussed in Ed's mail.
>
> Putting it together, the feature request is splitted:
> 1. For sensors without operation status, we can config them as optional, so
>    they do not trigger failsafe;
> 2. For sensors with operation status, do not trigger failsafe if it is
>    unavailable; trigger failsafe if it is fault.

Just bumping this back to the top of my list.  I don't know that I'll
have to time to restructure the initialization of sensors until a few
weeks from now.  However, I'm bumping this now because I'm doing some
phosphor-pid-control work again and it's a good time to think about
these features -- since I'm already cracking it open.