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authorAndré Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu>2015-08-05 17:04:01 -0300
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+CPU cooling APIs How To
+===================================
+
+Written by Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@linaro.org>
+
+Updated: 6 Jan 2015
+
+Copyright (c) 2012 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd(http://www.samsung.com)
+
+0. Introduction
+
+The generic cpu cooling(freq clipping) provides registration/unregistration APIs
+to the caller. The binding of the cooling devices to the trip point is left for
+the user. The registration APIs returns the cooling device pointer.
+
+1. cpu cooling APIs
+
+1.1 cpufreq registration/unregistration APIs
+1.1.1 struct thermal_cooling_device *cpufreq_cooling_register(
+ struct cpumask *clip_cpus)
+
+ This interface function registers the cpufreq cooling device with the name
+ "thermal-cpufreq-%x". This api can support multiple instances of cpufreq
+ cooling devices.
+
+ clip_cpus: cpumask of cpus where the frequency constraints will happen.
+
+1.1.2 struct thermal_cooling_device *of_cpufreq_cooling_register(
+ struct device_node *np, const struct cpumask *clip_cpus)
+
+ This interface function registers the cpufreq cooling device with
+ the name "thermal-cpufreq-%x" linking it with a device tree node, in
+ order to bind it via the thermal DT code. This api can support multiple
+ instances of cpufreq cooling devices.
+
+ np: pointer to the cooling device device tree node
+ clip_cpus: cpumask of cpus where the frequency constraints will happen.
+
+1.1.3 void cpufreq_cooling_unregister(struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev)
+
+ This interface function unregisters the "thermal-cpufreq-%x" cooling device.
+
+ cdev: Cooling device pointer which has to be unregistered.