Re: [PATCH] thermal/core: Make 'forced_passive' as obsolete candidate

[Matthew Garrett]

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.