From: Sascha Hauer Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2015 07:46:17 +0000 (+0200) Subject: thermal: Add comment explaining test for critical temperature X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~176^2~1077^2^2 X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=934c93b8c193b62fc86256ea64aef65e9a7b4e9e;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git thermal: Add comment explaining test for critical temperature The code testing if a temperature should be emulated or not is not obvious. Add a comment explaining why this test is done. Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer Reviewed-by: Mikko Perttunen Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui --- diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c b/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c index 9599465abeac..6a707789746b 100644 --- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c +++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c @@ -498,6 +498,11 @@ int thermal_zone_get_temp(struct thermal_zone_device *tz, int *temp) } } + /* + * Only allow emulating a temperature when the real temperature + * is below the critical temperature so that the emulation code + * cannot hide critical conditions. + */ if (!ret && *temp < crit_temp) *temp = tz->emul_temperature; }