From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] acpi_power_meter: hwmon driver for ACPI 4.0 power
 meters
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:25:54 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi Darrick,
On the system you are planning to run this on...
Are the power meters in the processor, or elsewhere?

If they are the ones in the processor, I'd rather that
Linux use a native model-specific driver to access those
registers and not use ACPI.

thanks,
Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center