Re: [PATCH] thermal: change thermal_class to a const struct

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2026 at 06:56:05PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2026 at 06:09:33PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki (Intel) wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 11, 2026 at 8:17 AM Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > >
> > > The class_create() call has been deprecated in favor of class_register()
> > > as the driver core now allows for a struct class to be in read-only
> > > memory. Change thermal_class to be a const struct class and drop the
> > > class_create() call.
> > 
> > This has been deliberately changed the other way around not too long
> > ago, in commit
> > 
> > 34f54003643e thermal/core: Allocate the thermal class dynamically
> > 
> > and it was then argued that it would be better to allocate the class
> > dynamically.
> > 
> > You seem to have a differing opinion.
> > 
> > Is there any plan to remove class_create() from the kernel?  If there
> > isn't, I'd rather stop this back-and-forth dance and leave the code
> > as-is.
> 
> Yes, class_create() is going away.  I didn't notice commit 34f54003643e,
> but that's the wrong thing to do here.  We should just revert that
> instead.

And we are down to only a very few callers of that function.  I'll sweep
the tree again after -rc1 is out, apply any pending patches, and drop
the function entirely then.

thanks,

greg k-h