linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86/mce/therm_throt: remove unused platform_thermal

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Date:   Mon, 13 Apr 2020 22:21:47 -0600
From:   "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
To:     Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-edac@...r.kernel.org,
        X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        bberg@...hat.com, bp@...e.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86/mce/therm_throt: remove unused
 platform_thermal_notify function pointer

On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 9:56 PM Srinivas Pandruvada
<srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2020-04-07 at 00:33 -0600, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > A long time ago platform_thermal_notify was added as some generic
> > mechanism for platform drivers to hook thermal events. It seems as
> > though this has been entirely superseded, and nothing uses it. Remove
> > the plumbing for this, since this code runs in an interrupt hot path.
> Good idea.

Will you take this into your tree? If not, how do your thermal patches
usually go in? A reviewed-by might be useful in that case.

Jason