From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/9] Thermal: Create 'mapX' sysfs node for a zone Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 06:28:29 -0800 Message-ID: <20130110142829.GB15787@kroah.com> References: <1357542806-20449-1-git-send-email-durgadoss.r@intel.com> <1357542806-20449-6-git-send-email-durgadoss.r@intel.com> <20130107192129.GA4465@kroah.com> <4D68720C2E767A4AA6A8796D42C8EB59258F6C@BGSMSX101.gar.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D68720C2E767A4AA6A8796D42C8EB59258F6C@BGSMSX101.gar.corp.intel.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "R, Durgadoss" Cc: "Zhang, Rui" , "linux-pm@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "eduardo.valentin@ti.com" , "hongbo.zhang@linaro.org" , "wni@nvidia.com" List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:50:20PM +0000, R, Durgadoss wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: linux-pm-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-pm- > > owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Greg KH > > Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 12:51 AM > > To: R, Durgadoss > > Cc: Zhang, Rui; linux-pm@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; > > eduardo.valentin@ti.com; hongbo.zhang@linaro.org; wni@nvidia.com > > Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/9] Thermal: Create 'mapX' sysfs node for a zone > > > > On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 12:43:22PM +0530, Durgadoss R wrote: > > > This patch creates a thermal map sysfs node under > > > /sys/class/thermal/zoneX/. This contains > > > entries named map0, map1 .. mapN. Each map has the > > > following space separated values: > > > trip_type sensor_name cdev_name trip_mask weights > > > > sysfs file are always "one value per file". This seems to violate that > > rule, so please rework this. > > These values together represent the binding information of > sensors and cooling devices in a zone. That's why we put > them in a single file. That doesn't matter, it's still multiple values in a single file that has to be parsed now. > >From our previous discussion, I understand we can support > a lot of nodes in sysfs. So, I will work with Rui to see how we can > split this in a meaningful way. > > Something like: > map0_trip_type > map0_sensor_name > map0_cdev_name > map0_mask > etc.. That would be much better. thanks, greg k-h