linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][Update 2][PATCH 4/4] ACPI / PM: Expose lists of device power resources to user space

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Date:	Mon, 21 Jan 2013 23:42:06 +0100
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Kristen C. Accardi" <kristen.c.accardi@...el.com>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][Update 2][PATCH 4/4] ACPI / PM: Expose lists of device power resources to user space

On Monday, January 21, 2013 12:58:46 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 02:08:16PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
> > 
> > Since ACPI power resources are going to be used more extensively on
> > new hardware platforms, it is necessary to allow user space (powertop
> > in particular) to look at the lists of power resources corresponding
> > to different power states of devices for diagnostics and control
> > purposes.
> > 
> > For this reason, for each power state of an ACPI device node using
> > power resources create a special attribute group under the device
> > node's directory in sysfs containing links to sysfs directories
> > representing the power resources in that list.  The names of the
> > new attribute groups are "power_resources_<state>", where <state>
> > is the state name i.e. "D0", "D1", "D2", or "D3hot".
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
> 
> You aren't calling sysfs_add_link() here, so why did you export it in
> the previous patch?

Well, unnecessarily.

Thanks,
Rafael


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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
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