From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] ACPI / PM: Export power resources information to user space Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 15:37:35 -0800 Message-ID: <20130120233735.GA7449@kroah.com> References: <3307415.pdOY6ovZLa@vostro.rjw.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mail-pb0-f53.google.com ([209.85.160.53]:41819 "EHLO mail-pb0-f53.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752493Ab3ATXhj (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:37:39 -0500 Received: by mail-pb0-f53.google.com with SMTP id un1so2311882pbc.26 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2013 15:37:39 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3307415.pdOY6ovZLa@vostro.rjw.lan> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: ACPI Devel Maling List , LKML , "Kristen C. Accardi" , Len Brown On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 03:51:40PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > Hi Greg, > > The following patch series is about exporting ACPI power resources to user > space that will be necessary for PM diagnostics on new platforms (powertop is > the target). Still, existing systems can also benefit from that, like my > oldish HP nx6325 on which the patches have been tested. > > Patch [1/3] shouldn't be really controverisal, as it only makes it possible > to read power resources' reference counters from user space in a quite > straightforward way. You need to add a Documentation/ABI/ entry for the new file you created here. Same thing for 3/3, which will help me understand exactly what you are trying to do here with sysfs. Care to update that so I can try to figure out if the sysfs code is correct? thanks, greg k-h