thermal: add a warning for temperature emulation feature
Because this feature is for debuging purposes, it is highly
recommended to do not enable this on production systems.
This patch adds warnings for system integrators, so that
people are aware of this potential security issue.
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Valentin <eduardo.valentin@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
diff --git a/drivers/thermal/Kconfig b/drivers/thermal/Kconfig
index 2a19120..fb0672b 100644
--- a/drivers/thermal/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/thermal/Kconfig
@@ -86,6 +86,10 @@
user can manually input temperature and test the different trip
threshold behaviour for simulation purpose.
+ WARNING: Be careful while enabling this option on production systems,
+ because userland can easily disable the thermal policy by simply
+ flooding this sysfs node with low temperature values.
+
config SPEAR_THERMAL
bool "SPEAr thermal sensor driver"
depends on PLAT_SPEAR