linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] thermal: Remove core header inclusion from drivers

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Date:   Fri, 10 Feb 2023 18:10:23 -0800
From:   Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] thermal: Remove core header inclusion from drivers

On Mon, Feb 06, 2023 at 04:34:29PM +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> As the name states "thermal_core.h" is the header file for the core
> components of the thermal framework.
> 
> Too many drivers are including it. Hopefully the recent cleanups
> helped to self encapsulate the code a bit more and prevented the
> drivers to need this header.
> 
> Remove this inclusion in every place where it is possible.
> 
> Some other drivers did a confusion with the core header and the one
> exported in linux/thermal.h. They include the former instead of the
> latter. The changes also fix this.
> 
> The tegra/soctherm driver still remains as it uses an internal
> function which need to be replaced.
> 
> The Intel HFI driver uses the netlink internal framework core and
> should be changed to prevent to deal with the internals.

I don't see any of the thermal netlink functionality exposed. Is
there any work in progress?

FWIW, Acked-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@...ux.intel.com>