Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Feb 2012 09:03:49 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [linux-pm] [RFC PATCH] thermal: Add support to report cooling statistics achieved by cooling devices |
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On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 05:56:58PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > Add a sysfs node code to report effective cooling of all cooling devices > > attached to each trip points of a thermal zone. The cooling data reported > > will be absolute if the higher temperature trip points are arranged first > > otherwise the cooling stats is the cumulative effect of the earlier > > invoked cooling handlers. > > > > The basic assumption is that cooling devices will bring down the temperature > > in a symmetric manner and those statistics can be stored back and used for > > further tuning of the system. > > /sys fs should be one-value-per-file, talk to gregkh.
That's correct.
Why not use debugfs for this instead?
thanks,
greg k-h
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