Re: [PATCH] x86: new Intel Atom SoC power management controller driver

From: Li, Aubrey
Date: Thu Mar 06 2014 - 00:59:29 EST


On 2014/3/6 13:52, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 03/05/2014 09:33 PM, Li, Aubrey wrote:
>>
>> These interfaces are uncommitted and don't have consumers now, I'd like
>> to keep them unstable in debugfs.
>>
>> We can change it if we received a requirement to use them later.
>>
>
> What we absolutely don't want to happen is someone starting to use these
> unstable interfaces for something other than debugging. If debugfs ever
> needs to be mounted in a system for full functionality, that is a bug.
>

Understood. But we don't have a plan to use it now. Just for observation
and diagnosis purpose only.

Are you suggesting we should put them into sysfs now?

Thanks,
-Aubrey

> -hpa
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