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authorZhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>2008-04-22 04:50:09 +0400
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2008-04-29 10:49:47 +0400
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thermal: update the documentation
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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diff --git a/Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt b/Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt
index d9f28be75403..70d68ce8640a 100644
--- a/Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt
@@ -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