linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] cpu_cooling: Drop static-power related stuff

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Date:   Wed, 15 Nov 2017 12:39:36 +0100
From:   Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
To:     Javi Merino <javi.merino@...nel.org>,
        Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
Cc:     Rafael Wysocki <rjw@...ysocki.net>, edubezval@...il.com,
        Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@...il.com>,
        Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        lukasz.luba@....com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] cpu_cooling: Drop static-power related stuff

On 15/11/2017 12:31, Javi Merino wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 02:49:48PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
>> No one has used it for the last two and half years (since it was
>> introduced by commit c36cf0717631 ("thermal: cpu_cooling: implement the
>> power cooling device API")), get rid of it.
> 
> Linaro used it in lsk 3.18 for the cpufreq driver for Juno.  The cpufreq
> driver was converted to the generic one from dt in lsk 4.4, but the
> generic cpufreq driver does not support static power because everything
> has to come from device tree and we don't have a way to specify it there.

Are in favor of removing it or improving the code ?


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