On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 01:03:02AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Friday, December 14, 2012 03:17:37 PM Sivaram Nair wrote: > > cpuidle_state->power_usage is signed; so change the corresponding sysfs > > ops to output signed value instead of unsigned. > > What's actually wrong with printing it as an unsigned int?
power_usage could have negative values (for example cpuidle/driver.c inits this value to -1, -2 etc. when drv->power_specified is not set) and these shows up badly in the sysfs output. regards, Sivaram -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
