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authorLaxman Dewangan <ldewangan@nvidia.com>2016-03-09 14:10:08 +0100
committerEduardo Valentin <edubezval@gmail.com>2016-03-09 19:51:41 +0100
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thermal: doc: Add details of devm_thermal_zone_of_sensor_{register,unregister}
Add details of the interface devm_thermal_zone_of_sensor_register() and devm_thermal_zone_of_sensor_unregister() in the <thermal/sysfs-api.txt>. Signed-off-by: Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@gmail.com>
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@@ -117,6 +117,29 @@ temperature) and throttle appropriate devices.
interface. It will also silent the zone by remove the .get_temp() and
get_trend() thermal zone device callbacks.
+1.1.5 struct thermal_zone_device *devm_thermal_zone_of_sensor_register(
+ struct device *dev, int sensor_id,
+ void *data, const struct thermal_zone_of_device_ops *ops)
+
+ This interface is resource managed version of
+ thermal_zone_of_sensor_register().
+ All details of thermal_zone_of_sensor_register() described in
+ section 1.1.3 is applicable here.
+ The benefit of using this interface to register sensor is that it
+ is not require to explicitly call thermal_zone_of_sensor_unregister()
+ in error path or during driver unbinding as this is done by driver
+ resource manager.
+
+1.1.6 void devm_thermal_zone_of_sensor_unregister(struct device *dev,
+ struct thermal_zone_device *tzd)
+
+ This interface is resource managed version of
+ thermal_zone_of_sensor_unregister().
+ All details of thermal_zone_of_sensor_unregister() described in
+ section 1.1.4 is applicable here.
+ Normally this function will not need to be called and the resource
+ management code will ensure that the resource is freed.
+
1.2 thermal cooling device interface
1.2.1 struct thermal_cooling_device *thermal_cooling_device_register(char *name,
void *devdata, struct thermal_cooling_device_ops *)