linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V3 1/8] cpufreq: cpufreq-cpu0: remove dependency on thermal

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Date:	Mon, 26 May 2014 09:34:24 +0530
From:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:	Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@...il.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Lists linaro-kernel <linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org>,
	"linux-pm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Arvind Chauhan <arvind.chauhan@....com>,
	Ips Gandhi <inderpal.s@...sung.com>,
	Nishanth Menon <nm@...com>,
	Chander Kashyap <chander.kashyap@...aro.org>,
	"Brown, Len" <len.brown@...el.com>,
	Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 1/8] cpufreq: cpufreq-cpu0: remove dependency on thermal

On 24 May 2014 18:29, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> wrote:
> On Fri 2014-05-23 10:03:27, Viresh Kumar wrote:
>> On 22 May 2014 20:22, Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@...il.com> wrote:
>> > However, on CPUs that needs thermal managment, it makes sense to have
>> > such dependency, from functional perspective. Mainly because scaling
>> > frequency and voltage up would be allowed only when thermal management
>> > is enabled.
>>
>> AFAIK, dependencies in KCONFIG are only for fixing compilation time issues.
>
> I do not think that's correct.

Yeah, that what I accepted later as well.. Dependency is whatever without which
the module is unusable.

And cpufreq-cpu0 is usable without THERMAL and so this dependency should
go away..
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