[PATCH v3 4/4] cpufreq: Drop unused symbol CPUFREQ_ETERNAL

Rafael J. Wysocki posted 4 patches 5 days, 12 hours ago
[PATCH v3 4/4] cpufreq: Drop unused symbol CPUFREQ_ETERNAL
Posted by Rafael J. Wysocki 5 days, 11 hours ago
From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

Drop CPUFREQ_ETERNAL that has no users any more along with all
references to it in the documentation.

No functional impact.

Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello (AMD) <superm1@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jie Zhan <zhanjie9@hisilicon.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
---

v1 -> v3: Add tags from Mario Limonciello and Jie Zhan

---
 Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.rst                  |    4 ----
 Documentation/cpu-freq/cpu-drivers.rst                    |    3 +--
 Documentation/translations/zh_CN/cpu-freq/cpu-drivers.rst |    3 +--
 Documentation/translations/zh_TW/cpu-freq/cpu-drivers.rst |    3 +--
 include/linux/cpufreq.h                                   |    5 -----
 5 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.rst
@@ -274,10 +274,6 @@ are the following:
 	The time it takes to switch the CPUs belonging to this policy from one
 	P-state to another, in nanoseconds.
 
-	If unknown or if known to be so high that the scaling driver does not
-	work with the `ondemand`_ governor, -1 (:c:macro:`CPUFREQ_ETERNAL`)
-	will be returned by reads from this attribute.
-
 ``related_cpus``
 	List of all (online and offline) CPUs belonging to this policy.
 
--- a/Documentation/cpu-freq/cpu-drivers.rst
+++ b/Documentation/cpu-freq/cpu-drivers.rst
@@ -109,8 +109,7 @@ Then, the driver must fill in the follow
 +-----------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
 |policy->cpuinfo.transition_latency | the time it takes on this CPU to	   |
 |				    | switch between two frequencies in	   |
-|				    | nanoseconds (if appropriate, else	   |
-|				    | specify CPUFREQ_ETERNAL)		   |
+|				    | nanoseconds                          |
 +-----------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
 |policy->cur			    | The current operating frequency of   |
 |				    | this CPU (if appropriate)		   |
--- a/Documentation/translations/zh_CN/cpu-freq/cpu-drivers.rst
+++ b/Documentation/translations/zh_CN/cpu-freq/cpu-drivers.rst
@@ -112,8 +112,7 @@ CPUfreq核心层注册一个cpufreq_driv
 |                                   |                                      |
 +-----------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
 |policy->cpuinfo.transition_latency | CPU在两个频率之间切换所需的时间,以  |
-|                                   | 纳秒为单位(如不适用,设定为         |
-|                                   | CPUFREQ_ETERNAL)                    |
+|                                   | 纳秒为单位                    |
 |                                   |                                      |
 +-----------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
 |policy->cur                        | 该CPU当前的工作频率(如适用)          |
--- a/Documentation/translations/zh_TW/cpu-freq/cpu-drivers.rst
+++ b/Documentation/translations/zh_TW/cpu-freq/cpu-drivers.rst
@@ -112,8 +112,7 @@ CPUfreq核心層註冊一個cpufreq_driv
 |                                   |                                      |
 +-----------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
 |policy->cpuinfo.transition_latency | CPU在兩個頻率之間切換所需的時間,以  |
-|                                   | 納秒爲單位(如不適用,設定爲         |
-|                                   | CPUFREQ_ETERNAL)                    |
+|                                   | 納秒爲單位                    |
 |                                   |                                      |
 +-----------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
 |policy->cur                        | 該CPU當前的工作頻率(如適用)          |
--- a/include/linux/cpufreq.h
+++ b/include/linux/cpufreq.h
@@ -26,13 +26,8 @@
  *********************************************************************/
 /*
  * Frequency values here are CPU kHz
- *
- * Maximum transition latency is in nanoseconds - if it's unknown,
- * CPUFREQ_ETERNAL shall be used.
  */
 
-#define CPUFREQ_ETERNAL			(-1)
-
 #define CPUFREQ_DEFAULT_TANSITION_LATENCY_NS	NSEC_PER_MSEC
 
 #define CPUFREQ_NAME_LEN		16