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Date:   Tue, 17 Mar 2020 20:27:48 +0100
From:   Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@...sk>
To:     Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
Cc:     Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
        Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@...durent.com>,
        kongxinwei <kong.kongxinwei@...ilicon.com>,
        Wangtao <kevin.wangtao@...ilicon.com>, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] thermal: hisilicon: Don't enable by default

On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 06:45:29PM +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> On 17/03/2020 18:41, Lubomir Rintel wrote:
> > Users are generally unlikely to have a HiSilicon thermal sensor.
> 
> Why ?

Because most computers don't run on HiSilicon chips.

> The thermal sensor is needed for the thermal mitigation.

If it's really needed, shouldn't ARCH_HISI depend on it?

In any case, I submitted this, because the driver enabled itself when I
turned on COMPILE_TEST, which was entirely unexpected. Unless I'm
mistaken, defaulting to off seems to be a standard practice for most
drivers, including thermal.

Would this be a better idea?

  default y if ARCH_HISI

Thanks
Lubo

> 
> > Like most other thermal drivers, don't build it by default/
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@...sk>
> > ---
> >  drivers/thermal/Kconfig | 1 -
> >  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/thermal/Kconfig b/drivers/thermal/Kconfig
> > index 02c3aa322a4a6..2062f8ec272b6 100644
> > --- a/drivers/thermal/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/thermal/Kconfig
> > @@ -233,7 +233,6 @@ config HISI_THERMAL
> >  	depends on ARCH_HISI || COMPILE_TEST
> >  	depends on HAS_IOMEM
> >  	depends on OF
> > -	default y
> >  	help
> >  	  Enable this to plug hisilicon's thermal sensor driver into the Linux
> >  	  thermal framework. cpufreq is used as the cooling device to throttle
> > 
> 
> 
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