Re: [PATCH RESEND v2] devfreq: move governor.h to a public header location

[Dmitry Baryshkov]

On Fri, Nov 07, 2025 at 09:58:09AM +0900, MyungJoo Ham wrote:
> >Sender: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> >Date: 2025-10-31 03:26 (GMT+9)
> >Title: [PATCH RESEND v2] devfreq: move governor.h to a public header location
> >
> >Some device drivers (and out-of-tree modules) might want to define
> >device-specific device governors. Rather than restricting all of them to
> >be a part of drivers/devfreq/ (which is not possible for out-of-tree
> >drivers anyway) move governor.h to include/linux/devfreq-governor.h and
> >update all drivers to use it.
> >
> >The devfreq_cpu_data is only used internally, by the passive governor,
> >so it is moved to the driver source rather than being a part of the
> >public interface.
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Could you please direct me to the governors or drivers needing this?
> (Qualcomm drivers?)

This has been prompted by the Qualcomm KGSL driver:

- https://github.com/qualcomm-linux/kgsl
- https://github.com/qualcomm-linux/kgsl/issues/11

But I think this issue is not limited to the KGSL driver. Other
out-of-tree modules might also implement device-specific governors.

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With best wishes
Dmitry