Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] thermal: core: genetlink support for events/cmd/sampling

From: Daniel Lezcano
Date: Wed Jul 01 2020 - 12:31:36 EST


On 01/07/2020 17:49, Srinivas Pandruvada wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> Then I'd prefer we only introduce the events that are used or will be
>> used soon, like the tz disable/enable, to avoid some potential dead
>> code.
>> We can easily add more events when they are needed.
>>
>> Srinivas, do you have plan to use the trip add/delete events?
> Yes and also trip modify.

Ok I will keep those then.

> Also I need to have one more event for heartbeat like event which needs
> confirmation from user space to hardware the user process controlling
> thermal is active not dead. So whenever hardware wants to check health
> it will send an event, which user space should acknowledge

Could it be the opposite? The userspace sends periodically a message to
tell it is alive instead of having the kernel asking the userspace?

Is it ok if we add this in a separate series ?



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