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

[Matthew Garrett]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 02:17:55PM +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> On 08/12/2020 16:30, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> > The passive file in sysfs forces the usage of a passive trip point set
> > by the userspace when a broken BIOS does not provide the mitigation
> > temperature for such thermal zone. The hardware evolved a lot since
> > 2008 as a good thermal management is no longer an option.
> > 
> > Linux on the other side also provides now a way to load fixed ACPI
> > table via the option ACPI_TABLE_UPGRADE, so additionnal trip point
> > could be added there.
> > 
> > Set the option obsolete and plan to remove it, so the corresponding
> > code can be removed from the core code and allow more cleanups the
> > thermal framework deserves.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> 
> Is there any concern about this change ?

Yes - what's the reason to do so? The code isn't specific to ACPI,
so being able to override ACPI tables doesn't seem to justify it.