On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 7:04 AM, Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Currently, in an ACPI based system, the processor driver registers > one cooling device per processor. However, the cooling device type > is the same for each processor. For example, on a system with four > processors, the sysfs reading of each cooling device would look like: > ebv@besouro ~ $ cat /sys/class/thermal/cooling_device*/type > Processor > Processor > Processor > Processor > > which turns out to fine. But, some parts of the thermal code may use > type to identify participating devices in a thermal zone. Besides, > adding notifications to user space may cause the production of messages > that may confuse the listener. > > For this reason, this patch adds the processor ID cooling device type. > After this change, the cooling device listing in the same previous example > would look like this: > ebv@besouro ~ $ cat /sys/class/thermal/cooling_device*/type > Processor.0 > Processor.1 > Processor.2 > Processor.3 > > allowing an easier identification of cooling device target. Is it not going to confuse any user space scripts or similar? -- 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
