linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/7] cpufreq: remove redundant CPUFREQ

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Date:	Wed, 6 Apr 2016 23:45:07 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
To:	Saravana Kannan <skannan@...eaurora.org>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Lists linaro-kernel <linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org>,
	"linux-pm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@...il.com>,
	Fabian Frederick <fabf@...net.be>,
	Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@...osoft.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	open@...eaurora.org,
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	Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>,
	Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>,
	Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...com>,
	Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] cpufreq: remove redundant CPUFREQ_INCOMPATIBLE
 notifier event

On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 11:29 PM, Saravana Kannan <skannan@...eaurora.org> wrote:
> On 04/06/2016 02:21 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 10:30 PM, Saravana Kannan <skannan@...eaurora.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 09/09/2015 05:53 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>>>>

[cut]

>>
>> Well, nobody was using that event.
>>
>
> True, but that's more of a bug in drivers/thermal/cpu-cooling.c and
> drivers/acpi/processor_thermal.c. We should revert this patch and fix those
> drivers. Does that seem acceptable to you?

I'd rather see a patch series adding the event back along with some
users.  One user at least.