linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5] thermal: Initialize thermal subsystem earlier

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Date:   Thu, 19 Sep 2019 22:13:34 +0800
From:   Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>
To:     Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@...aro.org>,
        Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-arm-msm <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
        Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@...il.com>,
        Andy Gross <agross@...nel.org>,
        Taniya Das <tdas@...eaurora.org>,
        Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org>,
        Lina Iyer <ilina@...eaurora.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
        Linux PM list <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] thermal: Initialize thermal subsystem earlier

On Tue, 2019-09-17 at 14:48 +0530, Amit Kucheria wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 1:30 AM Daniel Lezcano
> <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org> wrote:
> > 
> > On 12/09/2019 00:32, Amit Kucheria wrote:
> > > From: Lina Iyer <ilina@...eaurora.org>
> > > 
> > > Now that the thermal framework is built-in, in order to
> > > facilitate
> > > thermal mitigation as early as possible in the boot cycle, move
> > > the
> > > thermal framework initialization to core_initcall.
> > > 
> > > However, netlink initialization happens only as part of
> > > subsys_initcall.
> > > At this time in the boot process, the userspace is not available
> > > yet. So
> > > initialize the netlink events later in fs_initcall.
> > 
> > Why not kill directly the netlink part, no one is using it in the
> > kernel?
> 
> That's a good point. I wasn't sure if anybody was using it, but I can
> remove it completely since no driver seems to be using the
> thermal_generate_netlink_event() api.

Interesting, I recalled that thermal_generate_netlink_event() is indeed
used by some thermal driver, but it's true that no one is using it now.

let's remove it and see if we get any complains.

thanks,
rui
> 
> Regards,
> Amit
> 
> $ git grep thermal_generate_netlink_event
> Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.rst:just need to call
> thermal_generate_netlink_event() with two arguments viz
> drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c:int
> thermal_generate_netlink_event(struct thermal_zone_device *tz,
> drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c:EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(thermal_generate_net
> link_event);
> include/linux/thermal.h:extern int
> thermal_generate_netlink_event(struct thermal_zone_device *tz,
> include/linux/thermal.h:static inline int
> thermal_generate_netlink_event(struct thermal_zone_device *tz,