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From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] ACPI / PM: Export power resources information to user space
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 01:11:29 +0100
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On Sunday, January 20, 2013 03:37:35 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 03:51:40PM +0100, 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.
> 
> You need to add a Documentation/ABI/ entry for the new file you created
> here.  Same thing for 3/3, which will help me understand exactly what
> you are trying to do here with sysfs.  Care to update that so I can try
> to figure out if the sysfs code is correct?

I will.

Thanks,
Rafael


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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.