Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 17:56:58 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org,
        patches@linaro.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, rob.lee@linaro.org,
        Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [RFC PATCH] thermal: Add support to report cooling
 statistics achieved by cooling devices
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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.

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