linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] PM / QOS: Remove the global notifiers

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Date:   Tue, 14 Mar 2017 08:35:31 +0530
From:   Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
To:     Kevin Hilman <khilman@...libre.com>
Cc:     Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>,
        Rafael Wysocki <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
        linaro-kernel <linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org>,
        "linux-pm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PM / QOS: Remove the global notifiers

On 13-03-17, 14:32, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org> writes:
> 
> > On 13 March 2017 at 17:01, Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org> wrote:
> >> On 22 February 2017 at 09:28, Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org> wrote:
> >>> They were never used in the kernel, not sure why they got merged into
> >>> the kernel though. Get rid of them.
> >>
> >> commit b66213cdb002b08b29603d488c451dfe25e2ca20
> >> Author: Jean Pihet <j-pihet@...com>
> >> Date:   Thu Aug 25 15:35:47 2011 +0200
> >>
> >>     PM QoS: Add global notification mechanism for device constraints
> >>
> >>     Add a global notification chain that gets called upon changes to the
> >>     aggregated constraint value for any device.
> >>     The notification callbacks are passing the full constraint request data
> >>     in order for the callees to have access to it. The current use is for the
> >>     platform low-level code to access the target device of the constraint.
> >>
> >>     Signed-off-by: Jean Pihet <j-pihet@...com>
> >>     Reviewed-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@...com>
> >>     Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl>
> >>
> >> It was a while ago since they were added, but it seems like
> >
> > Slipped on the keyboard, sorry for the noise.
> >
> > I was about to say, that it was a while ago these were added, but
> > still not being used. Thus let's remove them.
> >
> > Acked-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>
> 
> Agreed.  If we still have no users, let's remove them.
> 
> Acked-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@...libre.com>

Its in Linus's tree for sometime now :)

Thanks for your Acks though

-- 
viresh