thermal: Remove netlink support

There are no users of netlink messages for thermal inside the kernel.
Remove the code and adjust the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8ff02cf62186c7a54fff325fad40a2e9ca3affa6.1571656014.git.amit.kucheria@linaro.org

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 100 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c b/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
index d4481cc8958f..cced0638b686 100644
--- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
+++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
@@ -19,8 +19,6 @@
 #include <linux/reboot.h>
 #include <linux/string.h>
 #include <linux/of.h>
-#include <net/netlink.h>
-#include <net/genetlink.h>
 #include <linux/suspend.h>
 
 #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
@@ -1464,97 +1462,6 @@ exit:
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(thermal_zone_get_zone_by_name);
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_NET
-static const struct genl_multicast_group thermal_event_mcgrps[] = {
-	{ .name = THERMAL_GENL_MCAST_GROUP_NAME, },
-};
-
-static struct genl_family thermal_event_genl_family __ro_after_init = {
-	.module = THIS_MODULE,
-	.name = THERMAL_GENL_FAMILY_NAME,
-	.version = THERMAL_GENL_VERSION,
-	.maxattr = THERMAL_GENL_ATTR_MAX,
-	.mcgrps = thermal_event_mcgrps,
-	.n_mcgrps = ARRAY_SIZE(thermal_event_mcgrps),
-};
-
-int thermal_generate_netlink_event(struct thermal_zone_device *tz,
-				   enum events event)
-{
-	struct sk_buff *skb;
-	struct nlattr *attr;
-	struct thermal_genl_event *thermal_event;
-	void *msg_header;
-	int size;
-	int result;
-	static unsigned int thermal_event_seqnum;
-
-	if (!tz)
-		return -EINVAL;
-
-	/* allocate memory */
-	size = nla_total_size(sizeof(struct thermal_genl_event)) +
-	       nla_total_size(0);
-
-	skb = genlmsg_new(size, GFP_ATOMIC);
-	if (!skb)
-		return -ENOMEM;
-
-	/* add the genetlink message header */
-	msg_header = genlmsg_put(skb, 0, thermal_event_seqnum++,
-				 &thermal_event_genl_family, 0,
-				 THERMAL_GENL_CMD_EVENT);
-	if (!msg_header) {
-		nlmsg_free(skb);
-		return -ENOMEM;
-	}
-
-	/* fill the data */
-	attr = nla_reserve(skb, THERMAL_GENL_ATTR_EVENT,
-			   sizeof(struct thermal_genl_event));
-
-	if (!attr) {
-		nlmsg_free(skb);
-		return -EINVAL;
-	}
-
-	thermal_event = nla_data(attr);
-	if (!thermal_event) {
-		nlmsg_free(skb);
-		return -EINVAL;
-	}
-
-	memset(thermal_event, 0, sizeof(struct thermal_genl_event));
-
-	thermal_event->orig = tz->id;
-	thermal_event->event = event;
-
-	/* send multicast genetlink message */
-	genlmsg_end(skb, msg_header);
-
-	result = genlmsg_multicast(&thermal_event_genl_family, skb, 0,
-				   0, GFP_ATOMIC);
-	if (result)
-		dev_err(&tz->device, "Failed to send netlink event:%d", result);
-
-	return result;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(thermal_generate_netlink_event);
-
-static int __init genetlink_init(void)
-{
-	return genl_register_family(&thermal_event_genl_family);
-}
-
-static void genetlink_exit(void)
-{
-	genl_unregister_family(&thermal_event_genl_family);
-}
-#else /* !CONFIG_NET */
-static inline int genetlink_init(void) { return 0; }
-static inline void genetlink_exit(void) {}
-#endif /* !CONFIG_NET */
-
 static int thermal_pm_notify(struct notifier_block *nb,
 			     unsigned long mode, void *_unused)
 {
@@ -1607,13 +1514,9 @@ static int __init thermal_init(void)
 	if (result)
 		goto unregister_governors;
 
-	result = genetlink_init();
-	if (result)
-		goto unregister_class;
-
 	result = of_parse_thermal_zones();
 	if (result)
-		goto exit_netlink;
+		goto unregister_class;
 
 	result = register_pm_notifier(&thermal_pm_nb);
 	if (result)
@@ -1622,8 +1525,6 @@ static int __init thermal_init(void)
 
 	return 0;
 
-exit_netlink:
-	genetlink_exit();
 unregister_class:
 	class_unregister(&thermal_class);
 unregister_governors: