Re: [PATCH 4/4] cpu_cooling: Drop static-power related stuff

From: Eduardo Valentin
Date: Wed Nov 15 2017 - 10:43:25 EST


On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 11:18:03AM +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> On 15/11/2017 10:19, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> > No one has used it for the last two and half years (since it was
> > introduced by commit c36cf0717631 ("thermal: cpu_cooling: implement the
> > power cooling device API")), get rid of it.
> >
> > Cc: Javi Merino <javi.merino@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@xxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
>
> Even if I agree that is not used to in the mainstream kernel, it is part
> of the EAS which is currently merged in Android.
>

Even though we really should care about stuff that is in mainline, this
specific case is about a piece of code that never made mainline, or got
lost on translation from one version to another. So, I am currently
nacking this patch and asking ARM/linaro folks to upstream the juno
implementation that uses static power.

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