On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 02:04:32PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> > > Make it possible to retrieve the current power state of a device with > ACPI power management from user space via sysfs by adding a new > attribute power_state to the sysfs directory associated with the > struct acpi_device object representing the device's ACPI node. > > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-power_state | 21 ++++++++++++++ > drivers/acpi/scan.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++- > 2 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > Index: linux-pm/drivers/acpi/scan.c > =================================================================== > --- linux-pm.orig/drivers/acpi/scan.c > +++ linux-pm/drivers/acpi/scan.c > @@ -178,6 +178,23 @@ err_out: > } > EXPORT_SYMBOL(acpi_bus_hot_remove_device); > > +static ssize_t power_state_show(struct device *dev, > + struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf) > +{ > + struct acpi_device *adev = to_acpi_device(dev); > + int state; > + int ret; > + > + ret = acpi_device_get_power(adev, &state); > + if (ret) > + return ret; > + > + return sprintf(buf, "%s %s\n", acpi_power_state_string(state), > + acpi_power_state_string(adev->power.state)); > +} You are showing 2 different things here in a single sysfs file, which is really frowned apon. Any chance to split this up into two different sysfs files instead? thanks, greg k-h -- 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