processor namespace

Holger Macht hmacht at suse.de
Wed Aug 23 10:44:44 PDT 2006


On Wed 23. Aug - 19:41:36, S.Çağlar Onur wrote:
> Çarşamba 23 Ağustos 2006 19:26 tarihinde, Kay Sievers şunları yazmıştı: 
> > See this patch about CPU frequency scaling:
> >   http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2006-August/005993.html
> 
> I know :), also using in our hal package for a while but (if im not missing 
> something again) in order to use this one must register to its methods.
> 
> What i mean is something like
> 
> libhal_device_get_property_string( 
> m_halContext, "/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/acpi_CPU0", "processor.current_frequency", 
> &error );

The processor namespace is currently only valid for ACPI. And basically
CPU frequency scaling has nothing to do with ACPI.

> 
> so simple shell script may also use it with parsing lshal output.

Hm, I think simple shell scripts can parse /sys/.../scaling_cur_freq
manually?

Regards,
	Holger


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