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From: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
To: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>, Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>,
	Sujith Thomas <sujith.thomas@intel.com>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Subject: [PATCH 2/6] thermal: sysfs-api.txt - document passive attribute for thermal zones
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:17:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1251303445-25317-3-git-send-email-elendil@planet.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1251303445-25317-1-git-send-email-elendil@planet.nl>

Signed-off-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Sujith Thomas <sujith.thomas@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>

diff --git a/Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt b/Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt
index 895337f..2a036eb 100644
--- a/Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Generic Thermal Sysfs driver How To
 
 Written by Sujith Thomas <sujith.thomas@intel.com>, Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
 
-Updated: 2 January 2008
+Updated: 21 August 2009
 
 Copyright (c)  2008 Intel Corporation
 
@@ -199,6 +199,15 @@ cdev[0-*]_trip_point
 	point.
 	RO, Optional
 
+passive
+	Attribute is only present for zones which do not have a passive
+	cooling policy (_PSV) defined in ACPI. Default is zero and can be
+	set to a temperature (in millidegrees) to enable a passive trip
+	point for the zone. Activation is done by polling with an interval
+	of 1 second.
+	Unit: millidegrees Celsius
+	RW, Optional
+
 *****************************
 * Cooling device attributes *
 *****************************
@@ -230,8 +239,9 @@ thermal_zone_device (thermal_zone1) with 4 trip points in all.
 It has one processor and one fan, which are both registered as
 thermal_cooling_device.
 
-If the processor is listed in _PSL method, and the fan is listed in _AL0
-method, the sys I/F structure will be built like this:
+If the processor is listed in _PSL method, the fan is listed in _AL0
+method, and the zone has a _PSV method, the sys I/F structure will be
+built like this:
 
 /sys/class/thermal:
 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-26 16:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-26 16:17 [PATCH 0/6] thermal: improvements re. forced passive cooling Frans Pop
2009-08-26 16:17 ` [PATCH 1/6] thermal: sysfs-api.txt - reformat for improved readability Frans Pop
2009-08-26 16:17 ` Frans Pop [this message]
2009-08-31  8:18   ` [PATCH 2/6] thermal: sysfs-api.txt - document passive attribute for thermal zones Zhang Rui
2009-08-31 11:19     ` Frans Pop
2009-09-01  0:44       ` Zhang Rui
2009-09-02 20:02         ` Pavel Machek
2009-09-03 14:34           ` Frans Pop
2009-08-26 16:17 ` [PATCH 3/6] acpi: thermal: display forced passive trip points in proc Frans Pop
2009-08-31  8:20   ` Zhang Rui
2009-08-26 16:17 ` [PATCH 4/6] thermal: add sanity check for the passive attribute Frans Pop
2009-08-26 16:23   ` Matthew Garrett
2009-08-26 16:48     ` Frans Pop
2009-08-31  8:33       ` Zhang Rui
2009-08-31 10:30         ` Frans Pop
2009-09-03  6:10           ` Zhang Rui
2009-09-03 14:33             ` [PATCH 4/6,v2] " Frans Pop
2009-08-26 16:17 ` [PATCH 5/6] thermal: Only set passive_delay for forced passive cooling Frans Pop
2009-08-26 16:25   ` Matthew Garrett
2009-09-10 16:07     ` Frans Pop
2009-09-10 16:15       ` Matthew Garrett
2009-08-26 16:17 ` [PATCH 6/6] thermal: disable polling if passive_delay and polling_delay are both unset Frans Pop
2009-08-26 16:25   ` Matthew Garrett
2009-10-26  7:38 [PATCH 0/6] [resend] thermal: improvements re. forced passive cooling Frans Pop
2009-10-26  7:39 ` [PATCH 2/6] thermal: sysfs-api.txt - document passive attribute for thermal zones Frans Pop
2009-11-05 23:11   ` Len Brown

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