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Documentation: Add new /sys/kernel/debug/ec/* files to ABI

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>

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Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>

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Documentation/ABI/testing/debugfs-ec
··· 1 + What: /sys/kernel/debug/ec/*/{gpe,use_global_lock,io} 2 + Date: July 2010 3 + Contact: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> 4 + Description: 5 + 6 + General information like which GPE is assigned to the EC and whether 7 + the global lock should get used. 8 + Knowing the EC GPE one can watch the amount of HW events related to 9 + the EC here (XY -> GPE number from /sys/kernel/debug/ec/*/gpe): 10 + /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/gpeXY 11 + 12 + The io file is binary and a userspace tool located here: 13 + ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/trenn/sources/ec/ 14 + should get used to read out the 256 Embedded Controller registers 15 + or writing to them. 16 + 17 + CAUTION: Do not write to the Embedded Controller if you don't know 18 + what you are doing! Rebooting afterwards also is a good idea. 19 + This can influence the way your machine is cooled and fans may 20 + not get switched on again after you did a wrong write.