thermal: Add event notification to thermal framework

This patch adds event notification support to the generic
thermal sysfs framework in the kernel. The notification is in the
form of a netlink event.

Signed-off-by: R.Durgadoss <durgadoss.r@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt b/Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt
index cb3d15bc1ae..b61e46f449a 100644
--- a/Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt
@@ -278,3 +278,15 @@ method, the sys I/F structure will be built like this:
     |---name:                   acpitz
     |---temp1_input:            37000
     |---temp1_crit:             100000
+
+4. Event Notification
+
+The framework includes a simple notification mechanism, in the form of a
+netlink event. Netlink socket initialization is done during the _init_
+of the framework. Drivers which intend to use the notification mechanism
+just need to call generate_netlink_event() with two arguments viz
+(originator, event). Typically the originator will be an integer assigned
+to a thermal_zone_device when it registers itself with the framework. The
+event will be one of:{THERMAL_AUX0, THERMAL_AUX1, THERMAL_CRITICAL,
+THERMAL_DEV_FAULT}. Notification can be sent when the current temperature
+crosses any of the configured thresholds.