Hi Rui, On 8/8/2017 2:23 AM, Zhang Rui wrote: > On Fri, 2017-07-14 at 11:48 -0600, Prashanth Prakash wrote: >> Per ACPI 6.2 spec, platforms can optionally add a string(_STR) >> object within each thermal zone package which provides a user >> friendly name/description. >> >> Add support to parse the string object, which will be exposed >> to userspace by thermal framework. >> > is there any real request for this? Yes, Qualcomm server platforms adds these description strings. > _STR is a generic control method for all the ACPI devices. > Thus I'm wondering, if really needed, should we expose this in acpi bus > instead? AFAIK, adding a _STR to any package was not explicitly allowed by the spec. Updates in APCI 6.2 made it legal to add an _STR object to thermal zone specifically, so added this support only to thermal zone. Thanks, Prashanth -- 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
