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    dt-bindings: thermal: Make trips node optional · 22fc8575
    Maxime Ripard authored
    Even though the previous binding made it a required child node, the
    implementation in Linux never made it mandatory and just ignored thermal
    zones without trip points.
    
    This was even effectively encouraged, since the thermal core wouldn't
    allow a thermal sensor to probe without a thermal zone.
    
    In the case where you had a thermal device that had multiple sensors but
    with enough knowledge to provide trip points for only a few of them,
    this meant that the only way to make that driver probe was to provide a
    thermal zone without the trips node required by the binding.
    
    This obviously led to a fair number of device trees doing exactly that,
    making the initial binding requirement ineffective.
    
    Let's make it clear by dropping that requirement.
    
    Cc: Amit Kucheria <amitk@kernel.org>
    Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
    Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMaxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarRob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210721140424.725744-34-maxime@cerno.tech
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