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Subject: Re: [PATCH] thermal: Hunt zero trip points thermal zones usage
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On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 6:59 PM Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> Some drivers are declaring a thermal zone without any thermal trip
> points.
>
> On the other side, we are introducing the function
> thermal_zone_device_register_with_trips() which provides an array of
> generic thermal trip points. When all the drivers will be converted to
> the generic trip points, keeping two functions will be useless.
>
> Most of the drivers are now using
> thermal_zone_device_register_with_trips() with the generic trip
> points. As soon as the remaining drivers are merged, the
> thermal_zone_device_register_with_trips() will be renamed to
> thermal_zone_device_register().

So why is this the first time I'm learning about this plan?

> Obviously this renaming can only happen if there are no more user of
> the thermal_zone_device_register() function.
>
> This change uses thermal_zone_device_register_with_trips() with a NULL
> parameter for the trip point array instead of
> thermal_zone_device_register().

And later it will be renamed to thermal_zone_device_register() again?

Can we just stop confusing people this way?

What would be wrong with changing both
thermal_zone_device_register_with_trips() and
thermal_zone_device_register() together when we are ready?  And why
can't the both be replaced with something line thermal_zone_register()
doing all of the necessary things in one go?  Why do we have to make
confusing and redundant changes?