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authorSteve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@smsc.com>2010-08-14 15:08:54 -0400
committerJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>2010-08-14 15:08:54 -0400
commit9df7305b5a8651eb940e98496bc1d4742379c578 (patch)
treea57f2f4feca16e98da54c9fc39d6f549ce137d1e /Documentation
parent5a9c2cd881f48d4bec627cccde386f8e3a28bb4a (diff)
hwmon: Add driver for SMSC EMC2103 temperature monitor and fan controller
SMSC's EMC2103 family of temperature/fan controllers have 1 onboard and up to 3 external temperature sensors, and allow closed-loop control of one fan. This patch adds support for them. Signed-off-by: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@smsc.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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1Kernel driver emc2103
2======================
3
4Supported chips:
5 * SMSC EMC2103
6 Addresses scanned: I2C 0x2e
7 Prefix: 'emc2103'
8 Datasheet: Not public
9
10Authors:
11 Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@smsc.com>
12
13Description
14-----------
15
16The Standard Microsystems Corporation (SMSC) EMC2103 chips
17contain up to 4 temperature sensors and a single fan controller.
18
19Fan rotation speeds are reported in RPM (rotations per minute). An alarm is
20triggered if the rotation speed has dropped below a programmable limit. Fan
21readings can be divided by a programmable divider (1, 2, 4 or 8) to give
22the readings more range or accuracy. Not all RPM values can accurately be
23represented, so some rounding is done. With a divider of 1, the lowest
24representable value is 480 RPM.
25
26This driver supports RPM based control, to use this a fan target
27should be written to fan1_target and pwm1_enable should be set to 3.
28
29The 2103-2 and 2103-4 variants have a third temperature sensor, which can
30be connected to two anti-parallel diodes. These values can be read
31as temp3 and temp4. If only one diode is attached to this channel, temp4
32will show as "fault". The module parameter "apd=0" can be used to suppress
33this 4th channel when anti-parallel diodes are not fitted.