thermal: add generic cpufreq cooling implementation

[mirror_ubuntu-jammy-kernel.git] / drivers / thermal / Kconfig

diff --git a/drivers/thermal/Kconfig b/drivers/thermal/Kconfig
index 7dd8c34552e17a992b9e71d7dda63ba1ad0ac68e..996003b3438a0d12ccc8822d022b1a0c33ea782f 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/thermal/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/thermal/Kconfig
@@ -19,6 +19,17 @@ config THERMAL_HWMON
        depends on HWMON=y || HWMON=THERMAL
        default y
 
+config CPU_THERMAL
+       bool "generic cpu cooling support"
+       depends on THERMAL && CPU_FREQ
+       help
+         This implements the generic cpu cooling mechanism through frequency
+         reduction, cpu hotplug and any other ways of reducing temperature. An
+         ACPI version of this already exists(drivers/acpi/processor_thermal.c).
+         This will be useful for platforms using the generic thermal interface
+         and not the ACPI interface.
+         If you want this support, you should say Y here.
+
 config SPEAR_THERMAL
        bool "SPEAr thermal sensor driver"
        depends on THERMAL