On Monday, January 21, 2013 02:03:03 PM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Monday, January 21, 2013 01:48:55 AM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Sunday, January 20, 2013 03:51:40 PM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > Hi Greg, > > > > > > The following patch series is about exporting ACPI power resources to user > > > space that will be necessary for PM diagnostics on new platforms (powertop is > > > the target). Still, existing systems can also benefit from that, like my > > > oldish HP nx6325 on which the patches have been tested. > > > > > > Patch [1/3] shouldn't be really controverisal, as it only makes it possible > > > to read power resources' reference counters from user space in a quite > > > straightforward way. > > > > > > Patch [3/3], however, exposes lists of power resources associated with > > > different power states of devices using ACPI PM as sysfs subdirectories > > > containing symbolic links and that requires some sysfs changes made by > > > patch [2/3]. > > > > > > Admittedly, my sysfs skills are limited so please let me know if those > > > changes make sense and are acceptable from your perspective. If not, then > > > please kindly advise what I can do instead of them. > > > > > > The patches apply on top of the current linux-next branch of the linux-pm.git > > > tree. > > > > Refreshed with Documentation/ABI files as requested. > > Well, that version wasn't really a good one, due to mistakes in the docs > mostly, so a new one follows (with better docs hopefully). > > Besides, I thought I'd include a patch that exposes ACPI power state > information, because it kind of belongs to the lot. It goes as the new [1/4]. > > [2/4] is the previous [1/3] and so on. Here it goes again after the changes we discussed earlier today. I think I've addressed all of the comments, but if I overlooked something, please let me know. Thanks, Rafael -- I speak only for myself. Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center. -- 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
