On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 04:17:27AM -0500, R, Durgadoss wrote: > Hi Fenghua, > > This patch, the second one in the series adds the interrupt > Handling support for the thermal thresholds. When an interrupt > occurs, this is notified to the user space(so that the user space > can take some action) by a netlink event. > > This patch is generated against the stable Linux-2.6 tree. > > This patch depends on the "Adding notification to thermal > Framework" patch, which can be downloaded from here: > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/282042/ > > Kindly review and merge. > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > From: Durgadoss R <durgadoss.r@xxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 04:10:41 +0530 > Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Adding_Threshold_Interrupt_Handling_to_Coretemp > > This patch adds the interrupt handling for the core/package > thermal thresholds in coretemp. The interrupts are routed to coretemp > via therm_throt.c. Whenever an interrupt occurs, a notification is sent > in the form of a netlink event to the user space. > > Signed-off-by: Durgadoss R <durgadoss.r@xxxxxxxxx> > After browsing through this and the previous patch, I think the functionality should reside outside and be independent of hwmon. arch/x86/kernel/cpu or drivers/platform/x86 might be better places for it, though I am not really in a position to make that judgement. Guenter -- 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
