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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Lourival Neto <lourival.neto@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: how to get acpi info inside the kernel?
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 02:23:09 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090302022309.GA20075@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4a33b1190903011741l3698db9cg70bf9bf2108fc868@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 10:41:48PM -0300, Lourival Neto wrote:

> I'm writing a cpufreq governor and I want to use some acpi info, like
> temperature, to make decisions. Is there a way to get this info inside
> the kernel without use sysfs? Where can I find linux-acpi interface
> documentation?

There isn't one, as such. You can either evaluate the ACPI methods 
yourself or in the case of thermal-related values you can use the 
generic thermal code.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-02  2:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-02  1:41 how to get acpi info inside the kernel? Lourival Neto
2009-03-02  2:23 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2009-03-02  4:20   ` Lourival Neto

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