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authorJavi Merino <javi.merino@arm.com>2015-01-06 18:14:25 +0000
committerEduardo Valentin <edubezval@gmail.com>2015-01-06 14:39:17 -0400
commit9477e18dd5d6c575ed972d81b7d9d6ff8a83746b (patch)
treedf77f4f5991a8fa6846c0020e55060279a5866ee /Documentation/thermal
parentd26eef8b725da620980ee20f7812f4488a206483 (diff)
Documentation: thermal: document of_cpufreq_cooling_register()
Commit 39d99cff76bf ("thermal: cpu_cooling: introduce of_cpufreq_cooling_register") taught the cpu cooling device to register devices that were linked to the device tree but didn't update the cpu-cooling-api documentation. Fix it. Cc: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@linaro.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Cc: Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Javi Merino <javi.merino@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/thermal/cpu-cooling-api.txt b/Documentation/thermal/cpu-cooling-api.txt
index fca24c931ec8..753e47cc2e20 100644
--- a/Documentation/thermal/cpu-cooling-api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/thermal/cpu-cooling-api.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ CPU cooling APIs How To
Written by Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@linaro.org>
-Updated: 12 May 2012
+Updated: 6 Jan 2015
Copyright (c) 2012 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd(http://www.samsung.com)
@@ -25,7 +25,18 @@ the user. The registration APIs returns the cooling device pointer.
clip_cpus: cpumask of cpus where the frequency constraints will happen.
-1.1.2 void cpufreq_cooling_unregister(struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev)
+1.1.2 struct thermal_cooling_device *of_cpufreq_cooling_register(
+ struct device_node *np, const struct cpumask *clip_cpus)
+
+ This interface function registers the cpufreq cooling device with
+ the name "thermal-cpufreq-%x" linking it with a device tree node, in
+ order to bind it via the thermal DT code. This api can support multiple
+ instances of cpufreq cooling devices.
+
+ np: pointer to the cooling device device tree node
+ clip_cpus: cpumask of cpus where the frequency constraints will happen.
+
+1.1.3 void cpufreq_cooling_unregister(struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev)
This interface function unregisters the "thermal-cpufreq-%x" cooling device.