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Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:25:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
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To: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@us.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] acpi_power_meter: hwmon driver for ACPI 4.0 power
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Hi Darrick,
On the system you are planning to run this on...
Are the power meters in the processor, or elsewhere?

If they are the ones in the processor, I'd rather that
Linux use a native model-specific driver to access those
registers and not use ACPI.

thanks,
Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center