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

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Date:   Wed, 15 Nov 2017 07:43:13 -0800
From:   Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@...il.com>
To:     Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
Cc:     Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
        Rafael Wysocki <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@...il.com>,
        Javi Merino <javi.merino@...nel.org>,
        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,
        Javi Merino <javi.merino@....com>,
        Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] cpu_cooling: Drop static-power related stuff

On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 11:18:03AM +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> On 15/11/2017 10:19, 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.
> > 
> > Cc: Javi Merino <javi.merino@....com>
> > Cc: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@....com>
> > Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
> > ---
> 
> Even if I agree that is not used to in the mainstream kernel, it is part
> of the EAS which is currently merged in Android.
> 

Even though we really should care about stuff that is in mainline, this
specific case is about a piece of code that never made mainline, or got
lost on translation from one version to another. So, I am currently
nacking this patch and asking ARM/linaro folks to upstream the juno
implementation that uses static power.

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