From: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux•vnet.ibm.com>
To: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in•ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba•org>,
Anton Blanchard <anton@samba•org>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: [RFC] powerpc: add support for new hcall H_BEST_ENERGY
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:00:02 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100310043002.GA15046@dirshya.in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100308192826.GJ10402@in.ibm.com>
* Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in•ibm.com> [2010-03-09 00:58:26]:
> On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 12:20:06PM +0530, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan wrote:
> > * Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in•ibm.com> [2010-03-06 00:48:11]:
> >
> > > Shouldn't we create this only for supported platforms ?
> >
> > Hi Dipankar,
> >
> > Yes we will need a check like
> > firmware_has_feature(FW_FEATURE_BEST_ENERGY) to avoid sysfs files in
> > unsupported platforms. I will add that check in the next iteration.
>
> Also, given that this module isn't likely to provide anything on
> older platforms, it should get loaded only on newer platforms.
Yes, I will explore methods to achieve this. I could not yet find
a trigger to load modules based on firmware feature.
--Vaidy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-10 4:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-03 18:18 [RFC] powerpc: add support for new hcall H_BEST_ENERGY Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2010-03-05 19:18 ` Dipankar Sarma
2010-03-08 6:50 ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2010-03-08 19:28 ` Dipankar Sarma
2010-03-10 4:30 ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan [this message]
2010-04-07 2:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-04-07 4:57 ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2010-04-07 5:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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