thermal: introduce device tree parser

This patch introduces a device tree bindings for
describing the hardware thermal behavior and limits.
Also a parser to read and interpret the data and feed
it in the thermal framework is presented.

This patch introduces a thermal data parser for device
tree. The parsed data is used to build thermal zones
and thermal binding parameters. The output data
can then be used to deploy thermal policies.

This patch adds also documentation regarding this
API and how to define tree nodes to use
this infrastructure.

Note that, in order to be able to have control
on the sensor registration on the DT thermal zone,
it was required to allow changing the thermal zone
.get_temp callback. For this reason, this patch
also removes the 'const' modifier from the .ops
field of thermal zone devices.

Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Valentin <eduardo.valentin@ti.com>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/thermal/Kconfig b/drivers/thermal/Kconfig
index f35a1f75b15..a150f8d5332 100644
--- a/drivers/thermal/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/thermal/Kconfig
@@ -29,6 +29,19 @@ config THERMAL_HWMON
 	  Say 'Y' here if you want all thermal sensors to
 	  have hwmon sysfs interface too.
 
+config THERMAL_OF
+	bool
+	prompt "APIs to parse thermal data out of device tree"
+	depends on OF
+	default y
+	help
+	  This options provides helpers to add the support to
+	  read and parse thermal data definitions out of the
+	  device tree blob.
+
+	  Say 'Y' here if you need to build thermal infrastructure
+	  based on device tree.
+
 choice
 	prompt "Default Thermal governor"
 	default THERMAL_DEFAULT_GOV_STEP_WISE