Re: [PATCH] thermal/drivers/core: Remove the module Kconfig's option

[Daniel Lezcano]

Hi Guenter,

thanks for the review.

On 01/04/2019 06:10, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 8:24 PM Daniel Lezcano
> <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> The module support for the thermal subsystem does have a little sense:
> 
> Do you mean "makes little sense" ?

yep :)

>>  - some subsystems relying on it are not modules, thus forcing the
>>    framework to be compiled in
>>  - it is compiled in for almost every configs, the remaining ones
>>    are a few platforms where I don't see why we can not switch the thermal
>>    to 'y'. The drivers can stay in tristate.
>>  - platforms need the thermal to be ready as soon as possible at boot time
>>    in order to mitigate
>>
>> Usually the subsystems framework are compiled-in and the plugs are as module.
>>
>> Remove the module option. The removal of the module related dead code will
>> come after this patch gets in or is acked.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Sounds like a good idea.
> 
> Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <groeck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Many dependencies such as the following can probably be simplified or
> removed after this patch has been accepted.
> 
> depends on THERMAL=y
> depends on THERMAL || THERMAL=n
> depends on (HWMON && (THERMAL || !THERMAL_OF)) || !HWMON
> depends on !(MLXSW_CORE=y && THERMAL=m)
> depends on THERMAL || !THERMAL
> depends on HWMON=y || HWMON=THERMAL
> depends on THERMAL || !THERMAL_OF

Absolutely.

  -- Daniel

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