Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] ACPI / PM: Export power resources information to user space

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-20T23:37:41Z

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