linux-kernel - Re: Thermal: Add a thermal notifier for user space

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Message-ID: <20121212182838.GA7497@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:28:38 -0500
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Durgadoss R <durgadoss.r@...el.com>,
	Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>
Subject: Re: Thermal: Add a thermal notifier for user space

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 06:05:47PM +0000, Linux Kernel wrote:
 > Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/linus/;a=commit;h=1cc807a234cb988d69ba18f6a3a1c68d71e54bed
 > Commit:     1cc807a234cb988d69ba18f6a3a1c68d71e54bed
 > Parent:     e151a202a084f9f4310d1aa4398325c56ca95fda
 > Author:     Durgadoss R <durgadoss.r@...el.com>
 > AuthorDate: Tue Sep 18 11:05:03 2012 +0530
 > Committer:  Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>
 > CommitDate: Mon Nov 5 14:00:08 2012 +0800
 > 
 >     Thermal: Add a thermal notifier for user space
 >     
 >     This patch registers a governor which will let the
 >     user land manage the platform thermals. Whenever a
 >     trip happens, this governor just notifies the user
 >     space using kobj_uevent().
 >     
 >     Signed-off-by: Durgadoss R <durgadoss.r@...el.com>
 >     Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>

 
 > +config USER_SPACE
 > +	bool "User_space thermal governor"
 > +	depends on THERMAL
 > +	help
 > +	  Enable this to let the user space manage the platform thermals.

This is terribly generic sounding.  Might I suggest THERMAL_USER_SPACE instead ?

	Dave

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