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+Kernel Driver IBMPOWERNV
+========================
+
+Supported systems:
+  * Any recent IBM P servers based on POWERNV platform
+
+Author: Neelesh Gupta
+
+Description
+-----------
+
+This driver implements reading the platform sensors data like temperature/fan/
+voltage/power for 'POWERNV' platform.
+
+The driver uses the platform device infrastructure. It probes the device tree
+for sensor devices during the __init phase and registers them with the 'hwmon'.
+'hwmon' populates the 'sysfs' tree having attribute files, each for a given
+sensor type and its attribute data.
+
+All the nodes in the DT appear under "/ibm,opal/sensors" and each valid node in
+the DT maps to an attribute file in 'sysfs'. The node exports unique 'sensor-id'
+which the driver uses to make an OPAL call to the firmware.
+
+Usage notes
+-----------
+The driver is built statically with the kernel by enabling the config
+CONFIG_SENSORS_IBMPOWERNV. It can also be built as module 'ibmpowernv'.
+
+Sysfs attributes
+----------------
+
+fanX_input              Measured RPM value.
+fanX_min                Threshold RPM for alert generation.
+fanX_fault              0: No fail condition
+                        1: Failing fan
+tempX_input             Measured ambient temperature.
+tempX_max               Threshold ambient temperature for alert generation.
+inX_input               Measured power supply voltage
+inX_fault               0: No fail condition.
+                        1: Failing power supply.
+power1_input            System power consumption (microWatt)