Re: [PATCH 2/2] cpuidle: fix sysfs output for power_usage

[Sivaram Nair]

On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 01:03:02AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Friday, December 14, 2012 03:17:37 PM Sivaram Nair wrote:
> > cpuidle_state->power_usage is signed; so change the corresponding sysfs
> > ops to output signed value instead of unsigned.
> 
> What's actually wrong with printing it as an unsigned int?

power_usage could have negative values (for example cpuidle/driver.c
inits this value to -1, -2 etc. when drv->power_specified is not set) and
these shows up badly in the sysfs output.

regards,
Sivaram
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