From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754006AbcDZUdB (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2016 16:33:01 -0400 Received: from cloudserver094114.home.net.pl ([79.96.170.134]:57865 "HELO cloudserver094114.home.net.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753811AbcDZUc6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2016 16:32:58 -0400 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Betty Dall Cc: lenb@kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI/device_sysfs: Add sysfs support for _HRV hardware revision Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 22:35:58 +0200 Message-ID: <3691881.pb3S7Il1cr@vostro.rjw.lan> User-Agent: KMail/4.11.5 (Linux/4.5.0-rc1+; KDE/4.11.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <1460558894-11971-1-git-send-email-betty.dall@hpe.com> References: <1460558894-11971-1-git-send-email-betty.dall@hpe.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday, April 13, 2016 08:48:14 AM Betty Dall wrote: > The ACPI _HRV object on the device is used to supply Linux with > the device's hardware revision. This is an optional object. Add > sysfs support for the _HRV object if it exists on the device. > > Signed-off-by: Betty Dall The patch itself looks OK to me, but why exactly do we need that thing in sysfs? Thanks, Rafael