Augment the documentation of the hwmon sysfs API to accomodate ACPI power meters. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface b/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface index dcbd502..8b5a654 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface @@ -353,10 +353,20 @@ power[1-*]_average Average power use Unit: microWatt RO -power[1-*]_average_interval Power use averaging interval +power[1-*]_average_interval Power use averaging interval. A poll + notification is sent to this file if the + hardware changes the averaging interval. Unit: milliseconds RW +power[1-*]_average_interval_max Maximum power use averaging interval + Unit: milliseconds + RO + +power[1-*]_average_interval_min Minimum power use averaging interval + Unit: milliseconds + RO + power[1-*]_average_highest Historical average maximum power use Unit: microWatt RO @@ -365,6 +375,18 @@ power[1-*]_average_lowest Historical average minimum power use Unit: microWatt RO +power[1-*]_average_max A poll notification is sent to + power[1-*]_average when power use + rises above this value. + Unit: microWatt + RW + +power[1-*]_average_min A poll notification is sent to + power[1-*]_average when power use + sinks below this value. + Unit: microWatt + RW + power[1-*]_input Instantaneous power use Unit: microWatt RO @@ -381,6 +403,42 @@ power[1-*]_reset_history Reset input_highest, input_lowest, average_highest and average_lowest. WO +power[1-*]_accuracy Accuracy of the power meter. + Unit: Percent + RO + +power[1-*]_alarm 1 if the system is drawing more power than the + cap allows; 0 otherwise. A poll notification is + sent to this file if the power use exceeds the + cap. The action that is taken when this event + happens is undefined--it is possible that the + hardware will reduce performance to cut the + power use, but it is also possible that the + system designer expects the OS to try to + reduce power consumption. Contact your + machine's vendor to find out which. + RO + +power[1-*]_cap If power use rises above this limit, the + system should take action to reduce power use. + A poll notification is sent to this file if the + cap is changed by the hardware. + Unit: microWatt + RW + +power[1-*]_cap_hyst Margin of hysteresis built around capping and + notification. + Unit: microWatt + RW + +power[1-*]_cap_max Maximum cap that can be set. + Unit: microWatt + RO + +power[1-*]_cap_min Minimum cap that can be set. + Unit: microWatt + RO + ********** * Energy * ********** -- 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
