From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: lenb@kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, djwong@us.ibm.com,
pavel@ucw.cz, rui.zhang@intel.com
Subject: Re: [patch 6/8] hwmon driver for ACPI 4.0 power meters
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 21:39:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101124213936.GA9829@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200909181941.n8IJf91g002548@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:41:09PM -0700, akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:
> This driver exposes ACPI 4.0 compliant power meters as hardware monitoring
> devices. This second revision of the driver also exports the ACPI string
> info as sysfs attributes, a list of the devices that the meter measures,
> and will send ACPI notifications over the ACPI netlink socket. This
> latest revision only enables the power capping controls if it can be
> confirmed that the power cap can be enforced by the hardware and explains
> how the notification interfaces work.
I know I'm a bit late on this, but what do you mean by "it can be
confirmed that the power cap can be enforced by the hardware"? Isn't
that what bit 2 of the capabilities list means?
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-24 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-18 19:41 [patch 6/8] hwmon driver for ACPI 4.0 power meters akpm
2009-09-18 20:46 ` Darrick J. Wong
2009-09-19 5:32 ` Len Brown
2010-11-24 21:39 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2010-11-24 23:21 ` Darrick J. Wong
2010-11-24 23:36 ` Matthew Garrett
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