From: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@us.ibm.com>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@us.ibm.com>,
Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
lm-sensors <lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org>,
linux-acpi <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] hwmon: Enhance the sysfs API for power meters.
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:43:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090725004328.20709.57712.stgit@elm3a70.beaverton.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090725004322.20709.96804.stgit@elm3a70.beaverton.ibm.com>
Augment the documentation of the hwmon sysfs API to accomodate ACPI power
meters.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
---
Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface b/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface
index dcbd502..e196701 100644
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface
@@ -357,6 +357,14 @@ power[1-*]_average_interval Power use averaging interval
Unit: milliseconds
RW
+power[1-*]_average_interval_max Maximum power use averaging interval
+ Unit: milliseconds
+ RO
+
+power[1-*]_average_interval_min Minimum power use averaging interval
+ Unit: milliseconds
+ RO
+
power[1-*]_average_highest Historical average maximum power use
Unit: microWatt
RO
@@ -365,6 +373,16 @@ power[1-*]_average_lowest Historical average minimum power use
Unit: microWatt
RO
+power[1-*]_average_max A notification is sent when power use
+ rises above this value.
+ Unit: microWatt
+ RW
+
+power[1-*]_average_min A notification is sent when power use
+ sinks below this value.
+ Unit: microWatt
+ RW
+
power[1-*]_input Instantaneous power use
Unit: microWatt
RO
@@ -381,6 +399,32 @@ power[1-*]_reset_history Reset input_highest, input_lowest,
average_highest and average_lowest.
WO
+power[1-*]_accuracy Accuracy of the power meter.
+ Unit: Percent
+ RO
+
+power[1-*]_alarm 1 if the system is drawing more power than the
+ cap allows; 0 otherwise.
+ RO
+
+power[1-*]_cap If power use rises above this limit, the
+ system should take action to reduce power use.
+ Unit: microWatt
+ RW
+
+power[1-*]_cap_hyst Margin of hysteresis built around capping and
+ notification.
+ Unit: microWatt
+ RW
+
+power[1-*]_cap_max Maximum cap that can be set.
+ Unit: microWatt
+ RO
+
+power[1-*]_cap_min Minimum cap that can be set.
+ Unit: microWatt
+ RO
+
**********
* Energy *
**********
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-25 0:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-25 0:43 [PATCH 0/2] ACPI 4.0 power meter Darrick J. Wong
2009-07-25 0:43 ` Darrick J. Wong [this message]
2009-08-07 18:09 ` [PATCH 1/2] hwmon: Enhance the sysfs API for power meters Pavel Machek
2009-08-08 17:40 ` Darrick J. Wong
2009-08-08 21:48 ` Pavel Machek
2009-08-10 21:12 ` Darrick J. Wong
2009-08-12 11:56 ` Pavel Machek
2009-08-18 23:32 ` Darrick J. Wong
2009-07-25 0:43 ` [PATCH 2/2] acpi_power_meter: hwmon driver for ACPI 4.0 " Darrick J. Wong
2009-07-27 1:44 ` ykzhao
2009-08-03 20:48 ` Darrick J. Wong
2009-07-27 6:45 ` Zhang Rui
2009-08-03 20:52 ` Darrick J. Wong
2009-07-28 1:25 ` Len Brown
2009-08-03 20:58 ` Darrick J. Wong
2009-08-06 20:42 ` [PATCH v2] " Darrick J. Wong
2009-08-17 22:05 ` Andrew Morton
2009-08-18 16:24 ` Darrick J. Wong
2009-08-18 23:47 [PATCH 0/2] ACPI 4.0 power meter Darrick J. Wong
2009-08-18 23:48 ` [PATCH 1/2] hwmon: Enhance the sysfs API for power meters Darrick J. Wong
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