From: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
To: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Wei Ni <wni@nvidia.com>, "R, Durgadoss" <durgadoss.r@intel.com>,
"Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, joe@perches.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-tegra@ger.kernel.org,
Alex Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: How to use the generic thermal sysfs.
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 15:39:53 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1343374793.1682.475.camel@rui.sh.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120727093037.094335eb@endymion.delvare>
On 五, 2012-07-27 at 09:30 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:58:21 +0800, Wei Ni wrote:
> > On Fri, 2012-07-27 at 09:21 +0800, Zhang Rui wrote:
> > > is it possible to program the sensor at this time, in your own thermal
> > > driver?
> >
> > Since we are using the generic thermal driver lm90.c, I'm not sure if we
> > could program these limits in the generic driver, I think it's better to
> > have a generic interface to set the limits, so I wish to add a
> > callback .set_limits() in the generic thermal framework.
>
> I can confirm that hwmon drivers do not set limits, it is up to
> user-space to do it if they want. So if there is a need to do so in the
> kernel itself, a proper interface at the generic thermal framework
> level seems appropriate.
>
oh, setting limits from userspace?
I think you can program the senor when writing the trip point?
with this patch,
http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=134318814620429&w=2
thanks,
rui
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-27 7:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-12 10:22 How to use the generic thermal sysfs Wei Ni
2012-07-12 10:22 ` Wei Ni
2012-07-12 10:54 ` R, Durgadoss
2012-07-12 10:54 ` R, Durgadoss
2012-07-13 1:51 ` Zhang Rui
2012-07-13 7:30 ` Wei Ni
2012-07-13 7:41 ` Zhang Rui
[not found] ` <1342165278.1682.259.camel-fuY85erJQUO75v1z/vFq2g@public.gmane.org>
2012-07-13 8:11 ` Wei Ni
2012-07-13 8:11 ` Wei Ni
2012-07-13 9:53 ` Wei Ni
2012-07-13 9:53 ` Wei Ni
2012-07-26 9:31 ` Wei Ni
2012-07-27 1:21 ` Zhang Rui
2012-07-27 2:58 ` Wei Ni
2012-07-27 7:30 ` Jean Delvare
2012-07-27 7:39 ` Zhang Rui [this message]
2012-07-27 10:48 ` Wei Ni
2012-08-01 1:02 ` Zhang Rui
2012-08-01 11:29 ` Wei Ni
2012-10-17 7:15 ` How can I get the latest generic thermal framework Wei Ni
2012-10-17 8:36 ` R, Durgadoss
2012-10-17 8:36 ` R, Durgadoss
2012-07-13 5:48 ` How to use the generic thermal sysfs Alex Courbot
2012-07-13 5:54 ` R, Durgadoss
2012-07-13 5:54 ` R, Durgadoss
2012-07-13 6:08 ` Alex Courbot
2012-07-13 6:10 ` Zhang Rui
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