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authorAndre Prendel <andre.prendel@gmx.de>2009-06-15 12:39:49 -0400
committerJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>2009-06-15 12:39:49 -0400
commitcd4e96c5dd4a72bdc54ea9981e02465708c204d3 (patch)
tree5dc66f79a41a54bd983cff20d1d1ebb857e6e30e /Documentation/hwmon
parentfce0758f5990b34af4ffba589b23f25c700beb2f (diff)
hwmon: (tmp401) Add documentation
Documentation for the tmp401 driver. The documentation describes the tmp401 driver and the supported Texas Instruments TMP401 and TMP411 temperature sensor chips. Further documentation for new sysfs attributes supported by this driver is added to Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface. Signed-off-by: Andre Prendel <andre.prendel@gmx.de> Acked-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface19
-rw-r--r--Documentation/hwmon/tmp40142
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diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface b/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface
index 004ee161721e..dcbd502c8792 100644
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ are interpreted as 0! For more on how written strings are interpreted see the
70[0-*] denotes any positive number starting from 0 70[0-*] denotes any positive number starting from 0
71[1-*] denotes any positive number starting from 1 71[1-*] denotes any positive number starting from 1
72RO read only value 72RO read only value
73WO write only value
73RW read/write value 74RW read/write value
74 75
75Read/write values may be read-only for some chips, depending on the 76Read/write values may be read-only for some chips, depending on the
@@ -295,6 +296,24 @@ temp[1-*]_label Suggested temperature channel label.
295 user-space. 296 user-space.
296 RO 297 RO
297 298
299temp[1-*]_lowest
300 Historical minimum temperature
301 Unit: millidegree Celsius
302 RO
303
304temp[1-*]_highest
305 Historical maximum temperature
306 Unit: millidegree Celsius
307 RO
308
309temp[1-*]_reset_history
310 Reset temp_lowest and temp_highest
311 WO
312
313temp_reset_history
314 Reset temp_lowest and temp_highest for all sensors
315 WO
316
298Some chips measure temperature using external thermistors and an ADC, and 317Some chips measure temperature using external thermistors and an ADC, and
299report the temperature measurement as a voltage. Converting this voltage 318report the temperature measurement as a voltage. Converting this voltage
300back to a temperature (or the other way around for limits) requires 319back to a temperature (or the other way around for limits) requires
diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/tmp401 b/Documentation/hwmon/tmp401
new file mode 100644
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@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
1Kernel driver tmp401
2====================
3
4Supported chips:
5 * Texas Instruments TMP401
6 Prefix: 'tmp401'
7 Addresses scanned: I2C 0x4c
8 Datasheet: http://focus.ti.com/docs/prod/folders/print/tmp401.html
9 * Texas Instruments TMP411
10 Prefix: 'tmp411'
11 Addresses scanned: I2C 0x4c
12 Datasheet: http://focus.ti.com/docs/prod/folders/print/tmp411.html
13
14Authors:
15 Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
16 Andre Prendel <andre.prendel@gmx.de>
17
18Description
19-----------
20
21This driver implements support for Texas Instruments TMP401 and
22TMP411 chips. These chips implements one remote and one local
23temperature sensor. Temperature is measured in degrees
24Celsius. Resolution of the remote sensor is 0.0625 degree. Local
25sensor resolution can be set to 0.5, 0.25, 0.125 or 0.0625 degree (not
26supported by the driver so far, so using the default resolution of 0.5
27degree).
28
29The driver provides the common sysfs-interface for temperatures (see
30/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface under Temperatures).
31
32The TMP411 chip is compatible with TMP401. It provides some additional
33features.
34
35* Minimum and Maximum temperature measured since power-on, chip-reset
36
37 Exported via sysfs attributes tempX_lowest and tempX_highest.
38
39* Reset of historical minimum/maximum temperature measurements
40
41 Exported via sysfs attribute temp_reset_history. Writing 1 to this
42 file triggers a reset.