From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86,mrst: Intel Medfield over-current detection patch
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:10:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101220161033.GB25502@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101213112147.15213.12742.stgit@bob.linux.org.uk>
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:53:41AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> From: Durgadoss R <durgadoss.r@intel.com>
>
> This patch enables over current detection on the Intel Medfield
> Platform. This driver provides sysfs interfaces to configure current
> thresholds. When the current being drawn on the platform exceeds
> the configured threshold, an interrupt is generated. This interrupt
> can be used to bring the current consumption down by taking necessary
> hardware or software actions.
>
> Note that while we use hwmon style helpers and interface this is not an hwmon
> device and hwmon has no common API with this hardware. After discussion with
> the hwmon maintainers it was decided to make this an x86 platform driver.
Hm. Do you have a summary or a pointer to that discussion? This really
does seem to be a hardware monitoring device, and so hwmon would seem
the more natural home for it - I'd like some idea of what the
justification was.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-20 16:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-13 11:53 [PATCH] x86,mrst: Intel Medfield over-current detection patch Alan Cox
2010-12-20 16:10 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2010-12-20 16:26 ` Alan Cox
2010-12-20 16:31 ` Matthew Garrett
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