On 01/09/2014 12:56 AM, Wei Ni wrote:
...
> On the tegra board, it will use two or more sensors to estimate the skin
> temperature by reading temps from these sensors and calculate them.
> For example, we have two sensors: sensor1 and sensor2. We can register
> them to thermal framework by using DT, something like:
> thermal-zones {
> sensor1: lm90-local {
> ...
> thermal-sensors = <&lm90 0>;
> };
>
> sensor2: lm90-remote {
> ...
> thermal-sensors = <&lm90 1>;
> };
> }
>
> Then I will add a device node for my skin temperature driver, something
> like:
> skin_temp {
> ...
> #thermal-sensor-cells = <0>;
>
> sub-devs {
> dev@0 {
> dev = <&sensor1>;
> };
>
> dev@1 {
> dev = <&sensor2>;
> };
> };
> };
I haven't read the rest of the thread, but surely that last chunk of DT
would be far simpler as:
skin_temp {
sub-devs = <&sensor1 &sensor2>;
};
or:
skin_temp {
sensors = <&sensor1 &sensor2>;
sensor-names = "local", "remote";
};
> So I can parse the DT in the skin temperature driver to get the nodes of
> the sensor1 and sensor2, and can use .*get_by_node to get thermal zone
> device, then use .get_temp() and other callbacks to get temperature and
> other information. If use the *.get_by_name, it may not get the uniqu
> one, because I don't know if there has the same name thermal zone,
> because some other driver may not use DT to register thermal zone, it
> can define any name by itself.
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