[PATCH v2 11/12] thermal: core: allow user configuration of hardware protection action

[Tzung-Bi Shih]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 05:25:36PM +0100, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> In the general case, we don't know which of system shutdown or
> reboot is the better action to take to protect hardware in an emergency
> situation. We thus allow the policy to come from the device-tree in the
> form of an optional critical-action OF property, but so far there was no
> way for the end user to configure this.
> 
> With recent addition of the hw_protection parameter, the user can now
> choose a default action for the case, where the driver isn't fully sure
> what's the better course of action.
> 
> Let's make use of this by passing HWPROT_ACT_DEFAULT in absence of the
> critical-action OF property.
> 
> As HWPROT_ACT_DEFAULT is shutdown by default, this introduces no
> functional change for users, unless they start using the new parameter.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at pengutronix.de>

Reviewed-by: Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi at kernel.org>