series applied to acpi-test. thanks, -Len On Thursday 17 January 2008 02:50, Zhang Rui wrote: > Hi, all, > > This patch series introduces a new generic thermal sysfs driver > which provides a set of interfaces for thermal zone devices (sensors) > and thermal cooling devices (fan, processor...) to register with the > thermal management solution and to be a part of it. > > And it also includes the implementation for ACPI thermal zone. > Standard sysfs I/F should be available for all ACPI thermal zones > with this patch series applied. > > Patch 01 creates the new generic thermal sysfs driver. > It defines two kinds of devices, thermal zone device and > thermal cooling device. > A thermal zone device usually contains a sensor to monitor the > temperature, several trip points and a bunch of cooling devices > associated with them. > A thermal cooling device is a device that can be throttled > to cool the system. > The generic thermal sysfs driver creates the standard sysfs I/F > for any registered thermal zone and thermal cooling device. > And binds the cooling devices to thermal zones if possible. > > Patch 02 registers ACPI thermal zone as thermal zone device. > > Patch 03 is a fix of violations of ACPI spec in ACPI thermal driver. > > Patch 04 registers ACPI Fan as thermal cooling device. > > Patch 05 registers ACPI Processor as thermal cooling device. > > Patch 06 registers ACPI Video LCD as thermal cooling device. > Because throttling the backlight of LCD can cool the system as well. > > Patch 09 creates a new platform specific driver, intel_menlow. > which is the thermal enhancement driver for intel menlow platform. > It programs the sensor of each thermal zone and registers the > intel memory controller (hardware id INT0002) as thermal cooling device. > > Patch 07 08 and 10 are minor fixes, please refer to the changelog of each patch. > > I've tested them and they work well on several systems. > I'd like to get some feedbacks from the list. Any comments are appreciated. :) > > Thanks, > Rui > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
