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authorFrans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>2009-10-26 08:39:00 +0100
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2009-11-05 18:11:18 -0500
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thermal: sysfs-api.txt - document passive attribute for thermal zones
Signed-off-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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@@ -199,6 +199,15 @@ cdev[0-*]_trip_point
point.
RO, Optional
+passive
+ Attribute is only present for zones in which the passive cooling
+ policy is not supported by native thermal driver. 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
+
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* Cooling device attributes *
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