Thermal: Add a notification API

This patch adds a notification API which the sensor drivers'
can use to notify the framework. The framework then takes
care of the throttling according to the configured policy.

Signed-off-by: Durgadoss R <durgadoss.r@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c b/drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c
index 64f3e973531..a69f24c4414 100644
--- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c
+++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c
@@ -1369,6 +1369,24 @@ void thermal_cdev_update(struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(thermal_cdev_update);
 
 /**
+ * notify_thermal_framework - Sensor drivers use this API to notify framework
+ * @tz:         thermal zone device
+ * @trip:       indicates which trip point has been crossed
+ *
+ * This function handles the trip events from sensor drivers. It starts
+ * throttling the cooling devices according to the policy configured.
+ * For CRITICAL and HOT trip points, this notifies the respective drivers,
+ * and does actual throttling for other trip points i.e ACTIVE and PASSIVE.
+ * The throttling policy is based on the configured platform data; if no
+ * platform data is provided, this uses the step_wise throttling policy.
+ */
+void notify_thermal_framework(struct thermal_zone_device *tz, int trip)
+{
+        handle_thermal_trip(tz, trip);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(notify_thermal_framework);
+
+/**
  * create_trip_attrs - create attributes for trip points
  * @tz:         the thermal zone device
  * @mask:       Writeable trip point bitmap.