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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/10] generic thermal management
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series applied to acpi-test.

thanks,
-Len

On Thursday 17 January 2008 02:50, Zhang Rui wrote:
> Hi, all,
>
> This patch series introduces a new generic thermal sysfs driver
> which provides a set of interfaces for thermal zone devices (sensors)
> and thermal cooling devices (fan, processor...) to register with the
> thermal management solution and to be a part of it.
>
> And it also includes the implementation for ACPI thermal zone.
> Standard sysfs I/F should be available for all ACPI thermal zones
> with this patch series applied.
>
> Patch 01 creates the new generic thermal sysfs driver.
> It defines two kinds of devices, thermal zone device and
> thermal cooling device.
> A thermal zone device usually contains a sensor to monitor the
> temperature, several trip points and a bunch of cooling devices
> associated with them.
> A thermal cooling device is a device that can be throttled
> to cool the system.
> The generic thermal sysfs driver creates the standard sysfs I/F
> for any registered thermal zone and thermal cooling device.
> And binds the cooling devices to thermal zones if possible.
>
> Patch 02 registers ACPI thermal zone as thermal zone device.
>
> Patch 03 is a fix of violations of ACPI spec in ACPI thermal driver.
>
> Patch 04 registers ACPI Fan as thermal cooling device.
>
> Patch 05 registers ACPI Processor as thermal cooling device.
>
> Patch 06 registers ACPI Video LCD as thermal cooling device.
> Because throttling the backlight of LCD can cool the system as well.
>
> Patch 09 creates a new platform specific driver, intel_menlow.
> which is the thermal enhancement driver for intel menlow platform.
> It programs the sensor of each thermal zone and registers the
> intel memory controller (hardware id INT0002) as thermal cooling device.
>
> Patch 07 08 and 10 are minor fixes, please refer to the changelog of each patch.
>
> I've tested them and they work well on several systems.
> I'd like to get some feedbacks from the list. Any comments are appreciated. :)
>
> Thanks,
> Rui
>
>
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