Message-ID: <4798A3F4.1070302@rtr.ca>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:43:00 -0500
From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071031)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: yi.y.yang@intel.com
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lenb@kernel.org,
       acpi-bugzilla@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: create proc entry 'power' only if C2 or C3 is	supported
References: <1198738022.8950.3.camel@yangyi-dev.bj.intel.com>	 <1198744900.3640.4.camel@yangyi-dev.bj.intel.com>	 <1198916553.3806.2.camel@yangyi-dev.bj.intel.com>	 <1199434602.19185.1.camel@yangyi-dev.bj.intel.com>	 <1199688961.3551.19.camel@yangyi-dev.bj.intel.com>	 <1199762486.3551.22.camel@yangyi-dev.bj.intel.com> <1201135532.3969.3.camel@yangyi-dev.bj.intel.com>
In-Reply-To: <1201135532.3969.3.camel@yangyi-dev.bj.intel.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Content-Length: 1034
Lines: 24

> Subject: ACPI: Create proc entry 'power' only C2 or C3 is supported
> From: Yi Yang <yi.y.yang@intel.com>
> 
> ACPI processor idle driver makes sense only if the processor supports
> C2 or C3. For legacy C0 and C1, just the original pm_idle is working
> , statistics info about promotion, demotion, latency, usage and
> duration are empty or 0, so these are misleading, users'll think their
> CPUs support C states (C2 or C3), /proc/acpi/processor/CPU*/power
> shouldn't exist for this case at all.
..

On the other hand, this change might send many of us scrambling
to try and figure out which kernel CONFIG option is responsible
for the expected /proc/acpi/processor/CPU*/power entries not showing up.
Thus just adding to the confusion by as much as it saves.

What do others think?


--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/