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From: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
To: "Barnabás Pőcze" <pobrn@protonmail.com>
Cc: Elia Devito <eliadevito@gmail.com>,
	Mark Pearson <mpearson@lenovo.com>,
	Benjamin Berg <bberg@redhat.com>,
	Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>,
	Jared Dominguez <jaredz@redhat.com>,
	"platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org" 
	<platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: offering a standardized (/sys/class) userspace API for selecting system/laptop performance-profiles
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 15:24:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3748b6be-cd8b-19e6-eb36-c5f94850d764@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jQoirRukXGYClb58QQWmL6rQ6usxi_hKzPRYe2tlEyjXG-hEVxwzECgEXFxzyMRG2sEnxwdKNvmWzEV4oZcaJ4MM5RrgFtBdin8yxH4cAYs=@protonmail.com>

Hi,

On 9/17/20 3:02 PM, Barnabás Pőcze wrote:
> Hi
> 
> 
> 2020. szeptember 17., csütörtök 13:22 keltezéssel, Hans de Goede írta:
> 
>> [...]
>> I guess we should also add an optional lap_mode sysfs attribute
>> to the class-device, to have all the info for the Thinkpads in
>> one place.
>> [...]
> 
> 
> Excuse my ignorance, but why does "lap_mode" need to be here?
> I understand the implications of it regarding performance, but
> I think it would be more sense to export it via the hwmon (or
> something similar) subsystem? What am I missing?

Well hwmon has very clearly defined sensor types, like voltage,
fan-speed and temperature. lap_mode does not match any of them.

Also registering another-type class device just for the lap_mode
boolean seems overkill, esp. since lap_mode is inherently coupled
to the performance-profile stuff.

Regards,

Hans


  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-17 13:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-17 11:22 RFC: offering a standardized (/sys/class) userspace API for selecting system/laptop performance-profiles Hans de Goede
2020-09-17 11:50 ` Bastien Nocera
2020-09-17 12:51   ` Hans de Goede
2020-09-17 13:00     ` Bastien Nocera
2020-09-17 13:50     ` Benjamin Berg
2020-09-17 13:54       ` Hans de Goede
2020-09-17 14:10         ` Benjamin Berg
2020-09-17 16:58           ` [External] " Mark Pearson
2020-09-17 17:03             ` Hans de Goede
2020-09-17 17:16               ` Mark Pearson
2020-09-17 18:16                 ` Benjamin Berg
2020-09-21  9:03                   ` Elia Devito
2020-09-22 10:43                     ` Hans de Goede
2020-09-24  2:10                       ` Mark Pearson
2020-09-24  8:21                         ` Hans de Goede
2020-09-24 11:48                     ` Benjamin Berg
2020-09-22 10:30                 ` Hans de Goede
2020-09-24  1:44                   ` Mark Pearson
2020-09-17 13:36   ` Mark Pearson
2020-09-17 14:04     ` Hans de Goede
2020-09-17 16:51       ` Mark Pearson
2020-09-17 12:22 ` Benjamin Berg
2020-09-17 12:45   ` Hans de Goede
2020-09-17 13:07     ` Bastien Nocera
2020-09-17 13:46       ` Hans de Goede
2020-09-17 13:02 ` Barnabás Pőcze
2020-09-17 13:24   ` Hans de Goede [this message]
2020-09-17 13:28     ` Bastien Nocera
2020-09-17 13:51       ` Hans de Goede
2020-09-17 13:59     ` Benjamin Berg

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