This patch set mainly cleans up the ACPI procfs/sysfs/debugfs code.
Patch 01 introduces drivers/acpi/debugfs.c, code for ACPI debugfs I/F,
i.e. /sys/kernel/debug/acpi/custom_method, is moved to this
file. And also make the ACPI debugfs I/F always built in,
even when CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG is cleared.
Patch 02 introduces module parameter acpi.aml_debug_output, so that
we can get the ACPI Debug Object output even with
CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG cleared.
Patch 03 introduces drivers/acpi/sysfs.c, code for ACPI sysfs I/F,
including:
/sys/module/acpi/parameters/debug_layer,
/sys/module/acpi/parameters/debug_level,
/sys/module/acpi/parameters/trace_method_name
/sys/module/acpi/parameters/trace_debug_layer
/sys/module/acpi/parameters/trace_debug_level
/sys/module/acpi/parameters/trace_state
/sys/module/acpi/parameters/acpica_version,
/sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/*,
/sys/firmware/acpi/tables/*,
is moved to this file.
Patch 04 removes the deprecated ACPI procfs I/F, including
/proc/acpi/debug_layer
/proc/acpi/debug_level
/proc/acpi/info
/proc/acpi/dsdt
/proc/acpi/fadt
/proc/acpi/sleep
because the sysfs I/F has been working well for years.
Patch 05, 06 and 07 remove the deprecated procfs I/F for ACPI
processor, power_resource and EC driver.
Patch 08 make the ACPI video procfs I/F depends on CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS,
because we already have the sysfs I/F for backlight control,
and the other procfs I/F of this driver is not used by anyone.
Patch 09 make the ACPI thermal procfs I/F depends on CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS
because the sysfs I/F, i.e. /sys/class/thermal, is available now.
Generally speaking, this patch set does the following things,
1. introduce new files for ACPI sysfs/debugfs I/F.
2. remove the deprecate ACPI procfs I/F.
3. make other ACPI procfs I/F that already has sysfs duplicate configurable,
so that we can remove them in the near future.
any comments are welcome.
thanks,
rui
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