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Update the documentation for the thermal driver hwmon sys I/F.

Change the ACPI thermal zone type to be consistent with hwmon.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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Zhang Rui 2008-04-22 08:50:09 +08:00 committed by Len Brown
parent e68b16abd9
commit e9ae71078b
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Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt
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@ -108,10 +108,12 @@ and throttle appropriate devices.
RO read only value
RW read/write value
All thermal sysfs attributes will be represented under /sys/class/thermal
Thermal sysfs attributes will be represented under /sys/class/thermal.
Hwmon sysfs I/F extension is also available under /sys/class/hwmon
if hwmon is compiled in or built as a module.
Thermal zone device sys I/F, created once it's registered:
|thermal_zone[0-*]:
/sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone[0-*]:
|-----type: Type of the thermal zone
|-----temp: Current temperature
|-----mode: Working mode of the thermal zone
@ -119,7 +121,7 @@ Thermal zone device sys I/F, created once it's registered:
|-----trip_point_[0-*]_type: Trip point type
Thermal cooling device sys I/F, created once it's registered:
|cooling_device[0-*]:
/sys/class/thermal/cooling_device[0-*]:
|-----type : Type of the cooling device(processor/fan/...)
|-----max_state: Maximum cooling state of the cooling device
|-----cur_state: Current cooling state of the cooling device
@ -130,10 +132,19 @@ They represent the relationship between a thermal zone and its associated coolin
They are created/removed for each
thermal_zone_bind_cooling_device/thermal_zone_unbind_cooling_device successful execution.
|thermal_zone[0-*]
/sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone[0-*]
|-----cdev[0-*]: The [0-*]th cooling device in the current thermal zone
|-----cdev[0-*]_trip_point: Trip point that cdev[0-*] is associated with
Besides the thermal zone device sysfs I/F and cooling device sysfs I/F,
the generic thermal driver also creates a hwmon sysfs I/F for each _type_ of
thermal zone device. E.g. the generic thermal driver registers one hwmon class device
and build the associated hwmon sysfs I/F for all the registered ACPI thermal zones.
/sys/class/hwmon/hwmon[0-*]:
|-----name: The type of the thermal zone devices.
|-----temp[1-*]_input: The current temperature of thermal zone [1-*].
|-----temp[1-*]_critical: The critical trip point of thermal zone [1-*].
Please read Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface for additional information.
***************************
* Thermal zone attributes *
@ -141,7 +152,10 @@ thermal_zone_bind_cooling_device/thermal_zone_unbind_cooling_device successful e
type Strings which represent the thermal zone type.
This is given by thermal zone driver as part of registration.
Eg: "ACPI thermal zone" indicates it's a ACPI thermal device
Eg: "acpitz" indicates it's an ACPI thermal device.
In order to keep it consistent with hwmon sys attribute,
this should be a short, lowercase string,
not containing spaces nor dashes.
RO
Required
@ -218,7 +232,7 @@ the sys I/F structure will be built like this:
/sys/class/thermal:
|thermal_zone1:
|-----type: ACPI thermal zone
|-----type: acpitz
|-----temp: 37000
|-----mode: kernel
|-----trip_point_0_temp: 100000
@ -243,3 +257,10 @@ the sys I/F structure will be built like this:
|-----type: Fan
|-----max_state: 2
|-----cur_state: 0
/sys/class/hwmon:
|hwmon0:
|-----name: acpitz
|-----temp1_input: 37000
|-----temp1_crit: 100000

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drivers/acpi/thermal.c
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@ -1136,7 +1136,7 @@ static int acpi_thermal_register_thermal_zone(struct acpi_thermal *tz)
for (i = 0; i < ACPI_THERMAL_MAX_ACTIVE &&
tz->trips.active[i].flags.valid; i++, trips++);
tz->thermal_zone = thermal_zone_device_register("ACPI thermal zone",
tz->thermal_zone = thermal_zone_device_register("acpitz",
trips, tz, &acpi_thermal_zone_ops);
if (IS_ERR(tz->thermal_zone))
return -ENODEV;