On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:53:41AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > From: Durgadoss R <durgadoss.r@xxxxxxxxx> > > This patch enables over current detection on the Intel Medfield > Platform. This driver provides sysfs interfaces to configure current > thresholds. When the current being drawn on the platform exceeds > the configured threshold, an interrupt is generated. This interrupt > can be used to bring the current consumption down by taking necessary > hardware or software actions. > > Note that while we use hwmon style helpers and interface this is not an hwmon > device and hwmon has no common API with this hardware. After discussion with > the hwmon maintainers it was decided to make this an x86 platform driver. Hm. Do you have a summary or a pointer to that discussion? This really does seem to be a hardware monitoring device, and so hwmon would seem the more natural home for it - I'd like some idea of what the justification was. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe platform-driver-x86" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
