linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] hwmon: (coretemp) Report power and energy consumption

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Date:	Mon, 23 Sep 2013 15:45:41 -0700
From:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:	Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
	"Artem S. Tashkinov" <t.artem@...lcity.com>,
	lm-sensors@...sensors.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-pm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] hwmon: (coretemp) Report power and energy
 consumption

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 03:31:33PM -0700, Srinivas Pandruvada wrote:
> On 09/23/2013 01:34 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> >Supported by SandyBridge and newer CPUs.
> >
> >Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
> >Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
> >---
> >v5: Merged to 3.12-rc1
> >v4: Replaced INIT_DELAYED_WORK with INIT_DEFERRABLE_WORK
> >v3: Added Cc:
> >v2: Fix missing symbol error on i386 builds
> >     Dropped leftover pr_info from debugging
> >
> >I am inclined to drop this patch set, as I received neither test nor code
> >review feedback even though the patch set has been out there for a long time.
> >Also, I am concerned that it overlaps or even conflicts with the proposed
> >Power Cap/RAPL driver (https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/9/19/260).
> <We feel that the power capping framework is the right place to show
> the RAPL data. This is not just monitoring but also control.
> There are other drivers getting developed using this framework to
> expose an uniform sysfs interface.

Thought so. Have you thought about providing a hwmon bridge ?

Thanks,
Guenter
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