From patchwork Thu Sep 1 12:27:20 2011 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Lee Jones X-Patchwork-Id: 3838 Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork@peony.canonical.com Delivered-To: patchwork@peony.canonical.com Received: from fiordland.canonical.com (fiordland.canonical.com [91.189.94.145]) by peony.canonical.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A6F023F41 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2011 12:27:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f52.google.com (mail-fx0-f52.google.com [209.85.161.52]) by fiordland.canonical.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F30BEA185E4 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2011 12:27:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-fx0-f52.google.com with SMTP id 18so912369fxd.11 for ; Thu, 01 Sep 2011 05:27:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.22.14 with SMTP id l14mr230877fab.100.1314880061893; Thu, 01 Sep 2011 05:27:41 -0700 (PDT) X-Forwarded-To: linaro-patchwork@canonical.com X-Forwarded-For: patch@linaro.org linaro-patchwork@canonical.com Delivered-To: patches@linaro.org Received: by 10.152.11.8 with SMTP id m8cs50604lab; Thu, 1 Sep 2011 05:27:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.20.143 with SMTP id p15mr151716wep.0.1314880061387; Thu, 01 Sep 2011 05:27:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n55si1273537wed.40.2011.09.01.05.27.40 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 01 Sep 2011 05:27:41 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: neutral (google.com: 74.125.82.50 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of lee.jones@linaro.org) client-ip=74.125.82.50; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com: 74.125.82.50 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of lee.jones@linaro.org) smtp.mail=lee.jones@linaro.org Received: by wwi36 with SMTP id 36so1877121wwi.31 for ; Thu, 01 Sep 2011 05:27:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.196.232 with SMTP id r82mr139958wen.104.1314880060561; Thu, 01 Sep 2011 05:27:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (cpc2-aztw13-0-0-cust146.aztw.cable.virginmedia.com [77.99.12.147]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id r57sm355985weq.12.2011.09.01.05.27.39 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 01 Sep 2011 05:27:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Lee Jones To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linus.walleij@stericsson.com, arnd@arndb.de, jamie@jamieiles.com, gregkh@suse.de, Lee Jones Subject: [PATCH 2/5] Add documentation for new sysfs devices/soc functionality Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 13:27:20 +0100 Message-Id: <1314880043-22517-2-git-send-email-lee.jones@linaro.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.4.1 In-Reply-To: <1314880043-22517-1-git-send-email-lee.jones@linaro.org> References: <1314880043-22517-1-git-send-email-lee.jones@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Lee Jones --- Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-soc | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-soc diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-soc b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-soc new file mode 100644 index 0000000..943a20f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-soc @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +What: /sys/devices/soc +Date: September 2011 +contact: Lee Jones +Description: + The /sys/devices/soc directory contains a sub-directory for each + System-on-Chip (SoC) device on a running platform. Information + regarding each SoC can be obtained by reading sysfs files. This + functionality is only available if implemented by the platform. + This directory contains two kinds of attributes: + - Common attributes: + * machine: SoC machine name (e.g. Ux500). + * family: SoC family name (e.g. DB8500). + - SoC-specific attributes: + * SoC vendor declared + * ST-Ericsson delcare the following + * soc_id: SoC serial number + * revision: SoC revision number + * process: the way in which the chip was manufactured +Users: + Any platform dependent user-space applications or profiling tools.