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

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Date:   Wed, 26 Apr 2023 18:58:08 +0200
From:   "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
To:     Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
Cc:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>, 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 Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 11:40 PM Daniel Lezcano
<daniel.lezcano@...aro.org> wrote:
>
> 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

No problem.

After some private conversation with Srinivas regarding this driver,
I've just posted a patch to get rid of it entirely and so I'm going to
skip all of the patches touching the Menlow driver in this series.