Loading .gitignore +1 −0 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ tags TAGS vmlinux* !vmlinux.lds.S !vmlinux.lds.h System.map Module.markers Module.symvers Loading Documentation/cpusets.txt +1 −1 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -542,7 +542,7 @@ otherwise initial value -1 that indicates the cpuset has no request. 2 : search cores in a package. 3 : search cpus in a node [= system wide on non-NUMA system] ( 4 : search nodes in a chunk of node [on NUMA system] ) ( 5~ : search system wide [on NUMA system]) ( 5 : search system wide [on NUMA system] ) This file is per-cpuset and affect the sched domain where the cpuset belongs to. Therefore if the flag 'sched_load_balance' of a cpuset Loading Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface +13 −20 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -2,17 +2,12 @@ Naming and data format standards for sysfs files ------------------------------------------------ The libsensors library offers an interface to the raw sensors data through the sysfs interface. See libsensors documentation and source for further information. As of writing this document, libsensors (from lm_sensors 2.8.3) is heavily chip-dependent. Adding or updating support for any given chip requires modifying the library's code. This is because libsensors was written for the procfs interface older kernel modules were using, which wasn't standardized enough. Recent versions of libsensors (from lm_sensors 2.8.2 and later) have support for the sysfs interface, though. The new sysfs interface was designed to be as chip-independent as possible. through the sysfs interface. Since lm-sensors 3.0.0, libsensors is completely chip-independent. It assumes that all the kernel drivers implement the standard sysfs interface described in this document. This makes adding or updating support for any given chip very easy, as libsensors, and applications using it, do not need to be modified. This is a major improvement compared to lm-sensors 2. Note that motherboards vary widely in the connections to sensor chips. There is no standard that ensures, for example, that the second Loading @@ -35,19 +30,17 @@ access this data in a simple and consistent way. That said, such programs will have to implement conversion, labeling and hiding of inputs. For this reason, it is still not recommended to bypass the library. If you are developing a userspace application please send us feedback on this standard. Note that this standard isn't completely established yet, so it is subject to changes. If you are writing a new hardware monitoring driver those features can't seem to fit in this interface, please contact us with your extension proposal. Keep in mind that backward compatibility must be preserved. Each chip gets its own directory in the sysfs /sys/devices tree. To find all sensor chips, it is easier to follow the device symlinks from /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon*. Up to lm-sensors 3.0.0, libsensors looks for hardware monitoring attributes in the "physical" device directory. Since lm-sensors 3.0.1, attributes found in the hwmon "class" device directory are also supported. Complex drivers (e.g. drivers for multifunction chips) may want to use this possibility to avoid namespace pollution. The only drawback will be that older versions of libsensors won't support the driver in question. All sysfs values are fixed point numbers. There is only one value per file, unlike the older /proc specification. Loading MAINTAINERS +3 −3 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -4431,10 +4431,10 @@ M: johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru S: Maintained W83791D HARDWARE MONITORING DRIVER P: Charles Spirakis M: bezaur@gmail.com P: Marc Hulsman M: m.hulsman@tudelft.nl L: lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org S: Odd Fixes S: Maintained W83793 HARDWARE MONITORING DRIVER P: Rudolf Marek Loading Makefile +1 −1 Original line number Diff line number Diff line VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 6 SUBLEVEL = 26 EXTRAVERSION = -rc6 EXTRAVERSION = -rc7 NAME = Rotary Wombat # *DOCUMENTATION* Loading Loading
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Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface +13 −20 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -2,17 +2,12 @@ Naming and data format standards for sysfs files ------------------------------------------------ The libsensors library offers an interface to the raw sensors data through the sysfs interface. See libsensors documentation and source for further information. As of writing this document, libsensors (from lm_sensors 2.8.3) is heavily chip-dependent. Adding or updating support for any given chip requires modifying the library's code. This is because libsensors was written for the procfs interface older kernel modules were using, which wasn't standardized enough. Recent versions of libsensors (from lm_sensors 2.8.2 and later) have support for the sysfs interface, though. The new sysfs interface was designed to be as chip-independent as possible. through the sysfs interface. Since lm-sensors 3.0.0, libsensors is completely chip-independent. It assumes that all the kernel drivers implement the standard sysfs interface described in this document. This makes adding or updating support for any given chip very easy, as libsensors, and applications using it, do not need to be modified. This is a major improvement compared to lm-sensors 2. Note that motherboards vary widely in the connections to sensor chips. There is no standard that ensures, for example, that the second Loading @@ -35,19 +30,17 @@ access this data in a simple and consistent way. That said, such programs will have to implement conversion, labeling and hiding of inputs. For this reason, it is still not recommended to bypass the library. If you are developing a userspace application please send us feedback on this standard. Note that this standard isn't completely established yet, so it is subject to changes. If you are writing a new hardware monitoring driver those features can't seem to fit in this interface, please contact us with your extension proposal. Keep in mind that backward compatibility must be preserved. Each chip gets its own directory in the sysfs /sys/devices tree. To find all sensor chips, it is easier to follow the device symlinks from /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon*. Up to lm-sensors 3.0.0, libsensors looks for hardware monitoring attributes in the "physical" device directory. Since lm-sensors 3.0.1, attributes found in the hwmon "class" device directory are also supported. Complex drivers (e.g. drivers for multifunction chips) may want to use this possibility to avoid namespace pollution. The only drawback will be that older versions of libsensors won't support the driver in question. All sysfs values are fixed point numbers. There is only one value per file, unlike the older /proc specification. Loading
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