diff --git a/drivers/thermal/Kconfig b/drivers/thermal/Kconfig
index e37691e0bf20..0e5cc948373c 100644
--- a/drivers/thermal/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/thermal/Kconfig
@@ -113,8 +113,10 @@ config THERMAL_DEFAULT_GOV_USER_SPACE
 	bool "user_space"
 	select THERMAL_GOV_USER_SPACE
 	help
-	  Select this if you want to let the user space manage the
-	  platform thermals.
+	  The Userspace governor allows to get trip point crossed
+	  notification from the kernel via uevents. It is recommended
+	  to use the netlink interface instead which gives richer
+	  information about the thermal framework events.
 
 config THERMAL_DEFAULT_GOV_POWER_ALLOCATOR
 	bool "power_allocator"
diff --git a/drivers/thermal/gov_user_space.c b/drivers/thermal/gov_user_space.c
index 64a18e354a20..a62a4e90bd3f 100644
--- a/drivers/thermal/gov_user_space.c
+++ b/drivers/thermal/gov_user_space.c
@@ -17,8 +17,7 @@
 
 static int user_space_bind(struct thermal_zone_device *tz)
 {
-	pr_warn_once("Userspace governor deprecated: use thermal netlink " \
-		     "notification instead\n");
+	pr_info_once("Consider using thermal netlink events interface\n");
 
 	return 0;
 }