The thermal zone parameter specifies the bang-bang governor. The Kconfig selects the bang-bang governor. So it is pointless to test if the governor was set for the thermal zone assuming it may not have been compiled-in. Remove the test and prevent another access into the thermal internals. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Peter Kaestle <peter@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/platform/x86/acerhdf.c | 7 ------- 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/acerhdf.c b/drivers/platform/x86/acerhdf.c index 61f1c3090867..71b9c1f922d9 100644 --- a/drivers/platform/x86/acerhdf.c +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/acerhdf.c @@ -697,13 +697,6 @@ static int __init acerhdf_register_thermal(void) if (ret) return ret; - if (strcmp(thz_dev->governor->name, - acerhdf_zone_params.governor_name)) { - pr_err("Didn't get thermal governor %s, perhaps not compiled into thermal subsystem.\n", - acerhdf_zone_params.governor_name); - return -EINVAL; - } - return 0; } -- 2.34.1