On Tue, 2016-03-29 at 19:53 -0700, Srikar Srimath Tirumala wrote: > On 03/28/2016 06:35 PM, Eduardo Valentin wrote: > > > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 11:08:00PM +0000, Pandruvada, Srinivas > > wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, 2016-03-14 at 11:12 -0700, Srikar Srimath Tirumala wrote: [...] > > I have created a wiki for LPC 2016 > > http://wiki.linuxplumbersconf.org/2016:thermal > > > > Overall I believe we need to solve the (temperature) sensing in a > > more > > structured way within the kernel. We have three subsystem that > > allow > > performing temperature sensing. They are different in design and > > concept, but still solve similar problems. > > > I went through the LPC presentation/patches and had a couple of > questions. > > The thermal iio device seems perfectly suited for sending large > amounts > of thermal data from the kernel framework to user space. Are there a > lot > of platforms where thermal throttling happens in user space? Yes.
> If so, Is > this an indication that passive thermal throttling is going into the > user space some time in the future? Not really. Kernel takes care about more immediate/urgent needs. User space is more about long term control, where you will prevent aggressive controls from kernel. Thanks, Srinivas
