From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@codon.org.uk>
To: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: rui.zhang@intel.com, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, amitk@kernel.org,
Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] thermal/core: Make 'forced_passive' as obsolete candidate
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2020 20:08:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201212200806.GA19048@codon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20015331-955b-756f-3dce-4eb78e473704@linaro.org>
On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 10:11:31AM +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> On 12/12/2020 04:50, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > Yes - what's the reason to do so?
>
> I'm cleaning up the thermal core code, so questioning every old ABI.
>
> > The code isn't specific to ACPI,
> > so being able to override ACPI tables doesn't seem to justify it.
>
> I agree, the code is no specific to ACPI.
>
> What non-ACPI architecture, without device tree or platform data would
> need the 'passive' option today ?
Anything that provides a trip point that has no active notifications and
doesn't provide any information that tells the kernel to poll it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-12 20:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-08 15:30 [PATCH] thermal/core: Make 'forced_passive' as obsolete candidate Daniel Lezcano
2020-12-11 13:17 ` Daniel Lezcano
2020-12-12 3:50 ` Matthew Garrett
2020-12-12 9:11 ` Daniel Lezcano
2020-12-12 20:08 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2020-12-12 23:39 ` Daniel Lezcano
2020-12-13 1:11 ` Matthew Garrett
2020-12-13 11:02 ` Daniel Lezcano
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