Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753108AbZG1B0I (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:26:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752555AbZG1B0H (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:26:07 -0400 Received: from vms173013pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.13]:48391 "EHLO vms173013pub.verizon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752015AbZG1B0G (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:26:06 -0400 Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:25:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Len Brown X-X-Sender: lenb@localhost.localdomain To: "Darrick J. Wong" Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel , lm-sensors , linux-acpi , Zhang Rui Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] acpi_power_meter: hwmon driver for ACPI 4.0 power meters In-reply-to: <20090725004335.20709.52288.stgit@elm3a70.beaverton.ibm.com> Message-id: References: <20090725004322.20709.96804.stgit@elm3a70.beaverton.ibm.com> <20090725004335.20709.52288.stgit@elm3a70.beaverton.ibm.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 556 Lines: 15 Hi Darrick, On the system you are planning to run this on... Are the power meters in the processor, or elsewhere? If they are the ones in the processor, I'd rather that Linux use a native model-specific driver to access those registers and not use ACPI. thanks, Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- 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/