From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752619Ab3ATXhl (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:37:41 -0500 Received: from mail-pa0-f50.google.com ([209.85.220.50]:36984 "EHLO mail-pa0-f50.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752342Ab3ATXhj (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:37:39 -0500 Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 15:37:35 -0800 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: ACPI Devel Maling List , LKML , "Kristen C. Accardi" , Len Brown Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] ACPI / PM: Export power resources information to user space Message-ID: <20130120233735.GA7449@kroah.com> References: <3307415.pdOY6ovZLa@vostro.rjw.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3307415.pdOY6ovZLa@vostro.rjw.lan> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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