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Wysocki" , Hans de Goede , Mark Gross , ACPI Devel Maling List , Mario Limonciello , Elia Devito , Bastien Nocera , Benjamin Berg , Platform Driver , Darren Hart References: <20201110033124.3211-1-markpearson@lenovo.com> <20201110033124.3211-2-markpearson@lenovo.com> From: Mark Pearson Message-ID: <2fe40ba1-8f2d-de46-49df-b8fee19fff3e@lenovo.com> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 09:09:59 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.46.61.15] X-ClientProxiedBy: reswpmail04.lenovo.com (10.62.32.23) To reswpmail04.lenovo.com (10.62.32.23) Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org Thanks Andy On 10/11/2020 05:03, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 5:35 AM Mark Pearson wrote: >> >> On modern systems the platform performance, temperature, fan and other >> hardware related characteristics are often dynamically configurable. The >> profile is often automatically adjusted to the load by somei >> automatic-mechanism (which may very well live outside the kernel). >> >> These auto platform-adjustment mechanisms often can be configured with >> one of several 'platform-profiles', with either a bias towards low-power >> consumption or towards performance (and higher power consumption and >> thermals). >> >> Introduce a new platform_profile sysfs API which offers a generic API for >> selecting the performance-profile of these automatic-mechanisms. > >> .../ABI/testing/sysfs-platform_profile | 66 +++++++++++++++++++ > > Is this in reST format? > Mauro have been converting ABI to be reST compatible (at least). > I'm assuming reST is "reStructured Text"? (it's a new one for me) I'll have a look and check it's compatible and see if I can fix up anything missing. If you have any pointers to a document that has already been updated and is a good reference point that would be appreciated Thanks Mark