Re: [PATCH] thermal: Remove core header inclusion from drivers

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On Sat, Feb 11, 2023 at 08:32:48AM -0800, srinivas pandruvada wrote:
> On Sat, 2023-02-11 at 08:53 +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> > On 11/02/2023 03:10, Ricardo Neri wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 06, 2023 at 04:34:29PM +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> > > > As the name states "thermal_core.h" is the header file for the
> > > > core
> > > > components of the thermal framework.
> > > > 
> > > > Too many drivers are including it. Hopefully the recent cleanups
> > > > helped to self encapsulate the code a bit more and prevented the
> > > > drivers to need this header.
> > > > 
> > > > Remove this inclusion in every place where it is possible.
> > > > 
> > > > Some other drivers did a confusion with the core header and the
> > > > one
> > > > exported in linux/thermal.h. They include the former instead of
> > > > the
> > > > latter. The changes also fix this.
> > > > 
> > > > The tegra/soctherm driver still remains as it uses an internal
> > > > function which need to be replaced.
> > > > 
> > > > The Intel HFI driver uses the netlink internal framework core and
> > > > should be changed to prevent to deal with the internals.
> > > 
> > > I don't see any of the thermal netlink functionality exposed. Is
> > > there any work in progress?
> > 
> > commit bd30cdfd9bd73b68e4977ce7c5540aa7b14c25cd
> > Author: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> >      thermal: intel: hfi: Notify user space for HFI events
> > 
> This is already exposed and we use it in user space.
> thermal_genl_cpu_capability_event() is called from intel_hfi driver to
> send the cpu capabilities.
> 
> Not sure what do you mean by  "don't see netlink functionality
> exposed"?
> 
> thermal_genl_cpu_caps struct and thermal_genl_cpu_capability_event()
> are defined in drivers/thermal/thermal_netlink.h.

Yes, I mean exactly this. The HFI code uses this functionality, but it is
declared in "../thermal_netlink.h". I just wondered if that is OK or also
needs to be declared somewhere in include/linux/

Thanks and BR,
Ricardo



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