ACPI: introduce ACPI int340x thermal scan handler

Newer laptops and tablets that use ACPI may have thermal sensors and
other devices with thermal control capabilities outside the core CPU/SOC,
for thermal safety reasons.
They are exposed for the OS to use via
1) INT3400 ACPI device object as the master.
2) INT3401 ~ INT340B ACPI device objects as the slaves.

This patch introduces a scan handler to enumerate the INT3400
ACPI device object to platform bus, and prevent its slaves
from being enumerated before the controller driver being probed.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/thermal/Kconfig b/drivers/thermal/Kconfig
index 693208eb9047..2ff7416ca930 100644
--- a/drivers/thermal/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/thermal/Kconfig
@@ -234,6 +234,23 @@ config INTEL_SOC_DTS_THERMAL
           notification methods.The other trip is a critical trip point, which
           was set by the driver based on the TJ MAX temperature.
 
+config INT340X_THERMAL
+        bool
+        depends on X86 && ACPI
+        help
+          Newer laptops and tablets that use ACPI may have thermal sensors and
+          other devices with thermal control capabilities outside the core
+          CPU/SOC, for thermal safety reasons.
+          They are exposed for the OS to use via the INT3400 ACPI device object
+          as the master, and INT3401~INT340B ACPI device objects as the slaves.
+          Enable this to expose the temperature information and cooling ability
+          from these objects to userspace via the normal thermal framework.
+          This means that a wide range of applications and GUI widgets can show
+          the information to the user or use this information for making
+          decisions. For example, the Intel Thermal Daemon can use this
+          information to allow the user to select his laptop to run without
+          turning on the fans.
+
 menu "Texas Instruments thermal drivers"
 source "drivers/thermal/ti-soc-thermal/Kconfig"
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