devfreq_cooling: pass a pointer to devfreq in the power model callbacks

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When the devfreq cooling device was designed, it was an oversight not to
pass a pointer to the struct devfreq as the first parameters of the
callbacks.  The design patterns of the kernel suggest it for a good
reason.

By passing a pointer to struct devfreq, the driver can register one
function that works with multiple devices.  With the current
implementation, a driver that can work with multiple devices has to
create multiple copies of the same function with different parameters so
that each devfreq_cooling_device can use the appropriate one.  By
passing a pointer to struct devfreq, the driver can identify which
device it's referring to.

Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ørjan Eide <orjan.eide@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Javi Merino <javi.merino@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@gmail.com>

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Javi Merino 2016-09-15 15:44:23 +01:00 • committed by Zhang Rui

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