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[8/9] Thermal: Add ABI Documentation for sysfs interfaces

Message ID 1357542806-20449-9-git-send-email-durgadoss.r@intel.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded, archived
Delegated to: Zhang Rui
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durgadoss.r@intel.com Jan. 7, 2013, 7:13 a.m. UTC 
This patch adds Documentation for ABI's introduced
for thermal subsystem (under /sys/class/thermal/).

Signed-off-by: Durgadoss R <durgadoss.r@intel.com>
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 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-thermal |   93 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 93 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-thermal

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Pavel Machek Feb. 19, 2013, 9:10 a.m. UTC | #1 
On Mon 2013-01-07 12:43:25, Durgadoss R wrote:
> This patch adds Documentation for ABI's introduced
> for thermal subsystem (under /sys/class/thermal/).

So... we have deciCelsius and deciKelvin in ACPI (IIRC) and miliCelsius here.

Perhaps using deciCelsius to be consistent with ACPI would be nice?

What do lm_sensors use?
									Pavel
> index 0000000..d1a450e
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-thermal
> @@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
> +What:		/sys/class/thermal/sensorX/temp
> +Date:		January 2013
> +KernelVersion:	3.8
> +Contact:	Linux PM Mailing list <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>
> +Description:
> +		Exposes 'temperature' of a thermal sensor in mC
> +Users:		Kernel/User space thermal governors
> +
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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-thermal b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-thermal
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d1a450e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-thermal
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+What:		/sys/class/thermal/sensorX/temp
+Date:		January 2013
+KernelVersion:	3.8
+Contact:	Linux PM Mailing list <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>
+Description:
+		Exposes 'temperature' of a thermal sensor in mC
+Users:		Kernel/User space thermal governors
+
+What:		/sys/class/thermal/sensorX/name
+Date:		January 2013
+KernelVersion:	3.8
+Contact:	Linux PM Mailing list <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>
+Description:
+		Name of the thermal sensor
+Users:		Kernel/User space thermal governors
+
+What:		/sys/class/thermal/sensorX/thresholdY
+Date:		January 2013
+KernelVersion:	3.8
+Contact:	Linux PM Mailing list <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>
+Description:
+		Programmable threshold (in terms of mC). On reaching
+		this, the thermal governors may take action to control
+		temperature.
+Users:		Kernel/User space thermal governors
+
+What:		/sys/class/thermal/zoneX/name
+Date:		January 2013
+KernelVersion:	3.8
+Contact:	Linux PM Mailing list <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>
+Description:
+		Name of the thermal zone.
+Users:		Kernel/User space thermal governors
+
+What:		/sys/class/thermal/zoneX/sensorY
+Date:		January 2013
+KernelVersion:	3.8
+Contact:	Linux PM Mailing list <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>
+Description:
+		Symlink to a sensor associated with this zone.
+Users:		User space thermal governors or applications
+
+What:		/sys/class/thermal/zoneX/cooling_deviceY
+Date:		January 2013
+KernelVersion:	3.8
+Contact:	Linux PM Mailing list <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>
+Description:
+		Symlink to a cooling device associated with this zone.
+Users:		User space thermal governors or applications
+
+What:		/sys/class/thermal/zoneX/sensorY_trip_active
+Date:		January 2013
+KernelVersion:	3.8
+Contact:	Linux PM Mailing list <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>
+Description:
+		Space separated list of active trip points for 'sensorY'
+		in 'zoneX' (in mC).
+Users:		Kernel/User space thermal governors
+
+What:		/sys/class/thermal/zoneX/sensorY_trip_passive
+Date:		January 2013
+KernelVersion:	3.8
+Contact:	Linux PM Mailing list <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>
+Description:
+		Space separated list of passive trip points for 'sensorY'
+		in 'zoneX' (in mC).
+Users:		Kernel/User space thermal governors
+
+What:		/sys/class/thermal/zoneX/sensorY_trip_hot
+Date:		January 2013
+KernelVersion:	3.8
+Contact:	Linux PM Mailing list <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>
+Description:
+		Hot trip point for 'sensorY' in 'zoneX' (in mC).
+Users:		Kernel/User space thermal governors
+
+What:		/sys/class/thermal/zoneX/sensorY_trip_critical
+Date:		January 2013
+KernelVersion:	3.8
+Contact:	Linux PM Mailing list <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>
+Description:
+		Critical trip point for 'sensorY' in 'zoneX' (in mC).
+Users:		Kernel/User space thermal governors
+
+What:		/sys/class/thermal/zoneX/mapY
+Date:		January 2013
+KernelVersion:	3.8
+Contact:	Linux PM Mailing list <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>
+Description:
+		Mapping information between a sensor and a cooling device
+		in 'zoneX'. See Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api2.txt for more
+		information on this interface.
+Users:		Kernel/User space thermal governors