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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] cpu_cooling: Drop static-power related stuff
To: Javi Merino <javi.merino@kernel.org>,
        Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
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From: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
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On 15/11/2017 12:31, Javi Merino wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 02:49:48PM +0530, 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.
> 
> Linaro used it in lsk 3.18 for the cpufreq driver for Juno.  The cpufreq
> driver was converted to the generic one from dt in lsk 4.4, but the
> generic cpufreq driver does not support static power because everything
> has to come from device tree and we don't have a way to specify it there.

Are in favor of removing it or improving the code ?


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