linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V4 2/3] thermal/drivers/cpu_cooling: Unregister with the policy

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Message-ID: <cd79ffe3-4749-9135-27c4-deb4f259d702@linaro.org>
Date:   Fri, 28 Jun 2019 11:57:57 +0200
From:   Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
To:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
Cc:     Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@...il.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>,
        Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@...il.com>,
        Javi Merino <javi.merino@...nel.org>,
        Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
        Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>,
        Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
        Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 2/3] thermal/drivers/cpu_cooling: Unregister with the
 policy


On 28/06/2019 11:12, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 11:02 PM Daniel Lezcano
> <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org> wrote:
>>
>> Currently the function cpufreq_cooling_register() returns a cooling
>> device pointer which is used back as a pointer to call the function
>> cpufreq_cooling_unregister(). Even if it is correct, it would make
>> sense to not leak the structure inside a cpufreq driver and keep the
>> code thermal code self-encapsulate. Moreover, that forces to add an
>> extra variable in each driver using this function.
>>
>> Instead of passing the cooling device to unregister, pass the policy.
>>
>> Because the cpufreq_cooling_unregister() function uses the policy to
>> unregister itself. The only purpose of the cooling device pointer is
>> to unregister the cpu cooling device.
>>
>> As there is no more need of this pointer, remove it.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
>> Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
> 
> This doesn't apply for me.
> 
> Care to rebase it on top of the Linus' tree?

Sure but the patch depends on 1/3 which is in bleeding edge. Shall I
rebase the 3 patches on v5.2-rc6 and resend ?




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