linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] hwmon: Add power meters to Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface

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Date:	Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:50:03 -0700
From:	"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...ibm.com>
To:	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>
Cc:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>,
	"Mark M. Hoffman" <mhoffman@...htlink.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, lm-sensors@...sensors.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hwmon: Add power meters to Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 11:10:52AM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:

> I'm not sure if we want these "historical" files. We don't have them for
> the other input types, and I believe that it's not the driver's job to
> compute and export these values. If anyone cares about the history of

In the case of ibmpex, it is the _hardware_ that computes the historical
data; the driver merely exports what it sees.

--D

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