The userspace governor is still in use on production systems and the
deprecating warning is scary.
Even if we want to get rid of the userspace governor, it is too soon
yet as the alternatives are not yet adopted.
Change the deprecated warning by an information message suggesting to
switch to the netlink thermal events.
Fixes: 0275c9fb0e ("thermal/core: Make the userspace governor deprecated")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Use pr_warn_once() instead of pr_warn() to print the user space
governor deprecation message in user_space_bind() to reduce the
kernel log noise.
Fixes: 0275c9fb0e ("thermal/core: Make the userspace governor deprecated")
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
The userspace governor is sending temperature when polling is active
and trip point crossed events. Nothing else.
AFAICT, this governor is used with custom kernels making the userspace
governor co-existing with another governor on the same thermal zone
because there was no notification mechanism, implying a hack in the
framework to support this configuration.
The new netlink thermal notification is able to provide more
information than the userspace governor and give the opportunity to
the users of this governor to replace it by a dedicated notification
framework.
The userspace governor will be removed as its usage is no longer
needed.
Add a warning message to tell the userspace governor is deprecated.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211019163506.2831454-1-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
Daniel Lezcano