Forget to mention, all these patches are based on ACPI test tree. thanks, rui On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 10:46 +0800, Zhang Rui wrote: > 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 > > > > > -- > 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 -- 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
