On Tue, 2 Apr 2013 16:00:42 -0700
Greg KH <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> > +#include "intel_rapl.h"
> > +#include "../../../fs/sysfs/sysfs.h"  
> 
> WTF?
> 
> Oh, that's a sure sign you are not doing something properly, if you
> think it's ok to muck around with the internals of sysfs.
> 
> There's a reason that file is "private", why do you think it's ok to
> use it directly?  Did you just think that I somehow "forgot" to put
> it in the proper include directory?
I did feel unsure about this but i saw some precedence in the kernel.
Anyway, I needed a way to validate a userspace file passed to rapl
driver belong to the same sysfs directory. I will look for alternative
ways.

-- 
Thanks,

Jacob
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