On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 03:32:09PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 3:23 PM Mian Yousaf Kaukab > <yousaf.kau...@suse.com> wrote: > > > > Convert cppc-cpufreq driver to a platform driver (done in a separate patch) > > and add cppc-cpufreq device when acpi_cppc_processor_probe() succeeds. > > Honestly, I prefer to drop 28f06f770454 (along with its follower) > instead of making this change. > Even if we revert 28f06f770454 there is still one more small issue that these patches fix. Currently, ACPI_PROCESSOR_DEVICE_HID is used to load cppc-cpufreq module. In case when CPPC is disabled, some cycles will be wasted in loading cppc-cpufreq module. The module will return error from the init call though so no memory is wasted.
After converting to platform-driver, cppc-cpufreq module will only be loaded when the platform-device is available. BR, Yousaf