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Subject[PATCH 2/6] thermal: sysfs-api.txt - document passive attribute for thermal zones
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Signed-off-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Sujith Thomas <sujith.thomas@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>

diff --git a/Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt b/Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt
index 895337f..2a036eb 100644
--- a/Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Generic Thermal Sysfs driver How To

Written by Sujith Thomas <sujith.thomas@intel.com>, Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>

-Updated: 2 January 2008
+Updated: 21 August 2009

Copyright (c) 2008 Intel Corporation

@@ -199,6 +199,15 @@ cdev[0-*]_trip_point
point.
RO, Optional

+passive
+ Attribute is only present for zones which do not have a passive
+ cooling policy (_PSV) defined in ACPI. Default is zero and can be
+ set to a temperature (in millidegrees) to enable a passive trip
+ point for the zone. Activation is done by polling with an interval
+ of 1 second.
+ Unit: millidegrees Celsius
+ RW, Optional
+
*****************************
* Cooling device attributes *
*****************************
@@ -230,8 +239,9 @@ thermal_zone_device (thermal_zone1) with 4 trip points in all.
It has one processor and one fan, which are both registered as
thermal_cooling_device.

-If the processor is listed in _PSL method, and the fan is listed in _AL0
-method, the sys I/F structure will be built like this:
+If the processor is listed in _PSL method, the fan is listed in _AL0
+method, and the zone has a _PSV method, the sys I/F structure will be
+built like this:

/sys/class/thermal:


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