Re: [patch 6/8] hwmon driver for ACPI 4.0 power meters

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On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:41:09PM -0700, akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> This driver exposes ACPI 4.0 compliant power meters as hardware monitoring
> devices.  This second revision of the driver also exports the ACPI string
> info as sysfs attributes, a list of the devices that the meter measures,
> and will send ACPI notifications over the ACPI netlink socket.  This
> latest revision only enables the power capping controls if it can be
> confirmed that the power cap can be enforced by the hardware and explains
> how the notification interfaces work.

I know I'm a bit late on this, but what do you mean by "it can be 
confirmed that the power cap can be enforced by the hardware"? Isn't 
that what bit 2 of the capabilities list means?

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