linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 6/6] thermal/drivers/intel_menlow: Make additionnal sysfs information optional

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Message-ID: <bcc96406-3f74-b79b-3f75-0c3bd88c5eea@linaro.org>
Date:   Thu, 20 Apr 2023 23:40:03 +0200
From:   Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
To:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
Cc:     rui.zhang@...el.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, Amit Kucheria <amitk@...nel.org>,
        Sujith Thomas <sujith.thomas@...el.com>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 6/6] thermal/drivers/intel_menlow: Make additionnal
 sysfs information optional

On 20/04/2023 19:24, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

[ ... ]

> After looking at it once more, I think that this driver isn't really
> functional without the additional sysfs attributes, so if
> CONFIG_INTEL_MENLOW_SYSFS_ADDON is set, the driver effectively becomes
> dead code.
> 
> That's rather unfortunate and I'm not sure how to deal with it ATM.
> 
> I can queue up the rest of the series for 6.4-rc1 (in which case it
> will be pushed in the second half of the merge window), but this
> particular patch requires more thought IMV.

I'm fine if you drop this one from the series.

Thanks for looking at it more deeply


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