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authorÉric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>2009-12-14 21:01:39 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-12-15 11:53:36 -0500
commitbc62c1471773fc32adcfc05100abd16fa2b6e126 (patch)
tree34894261672d0c73c01b46ed92ebad7eb75ea8c4 /Documentation
parent66c8569bf990064b3f11e0f211a81a46e0b627ff (diff)
lis3: update documentation and comments
Most of the documentation and comments were written when the driver was only supporting one type of chip, only via ACPI/HP. Update the info to the much clearer understanding that we have now. Signed-off-by: Éric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net> Signed-off-by: Samu Onkalo <samu.p.onkalo@nokia.com> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/hwmon/lis3lv02d24
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/lis3lv02d b/Documentation/hwmon/lis3lv02d
index effe949a7282..21f090252209 100644
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/lis3lv02d
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/lis3lv02d
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ Kernel driver lis3lv02d
3 3
4Supported chips: 4Supported chips:
5 5
6 * STMicroelectronics LIS3LV02DL and LIS3LV02DQ 6 * STMicroelectronics LIS3LV02DL, LIS3LV02DQ (12 bits precision)
7 * STMicroelectronics LIS302DL, LIS3L02DQ, LIS331DL (8 bits)
7 8
8Authors: 9Authors:
9 Yan Burman <burman.yan@gmail.com> 10 Yan Burman <burman.yan@gmail.com>
@@ -13,13 +14,12 @@ Authors:
13Description 14Description
14----------- 15-----------
15 16
16This driver provides support for the accelerometer found in various HP 17This driver provides support for the accelerometer found in various HP laptops
17laptops sporting the feature officially called "HP Mobile Data 18sporting the feature officially called "HP Mobile Data Protection System 3D" or
18Protection System 3D" or "HP 3D DriveGuard". It detects automatically 19"HP 3D DriveGuard". It detects automatically laptops with this sensor. Known
19laptops with this sensor. Known models (for now the HP 2133, nc6420, 20models (full list can be found in drivers/hwmon/hp_accel.c) will have their
20nc2510, nc8510, nc84x0, nw9440 and nx9420) will have their axis 21axis automatically oriented on standard way (eg: you can directly play
21automatically oriented on standard way (eg: you can directly play 22neverball). The accelerometer data is readable via
22neverball). The accelerometer data is readable via
23/sys/devices/platform/lis3lv02d. 23/sys/devices/platform/lis3lv02d.
24 24
25Sysfs attributes under /sys/devices/platform/lis3lv02d/: 25Sysfs attributes under /sys/devices/platform/lis3lv02d/:
@@ -33,12 +33,16 @@ rate - reports the sampling rate of the accelerometer device in HZ
33This driver also provides an absolute input class device, allowing 33This driver also provides an absolute input class device, allowing
34the laptop to act as a pinball machine-esque joystick. 34the laptop to act as a pinball machine-esque joystick.
35 35
36On HP laptops, if the led infrastructure is activated, support for a led
37indicating disk protection will be provided as /sys/class/leds/hp::hddprotect.
38
36Another feature of the driver is misc device called "freefall" that 39Another feature of the driver is misc device called "freefall" that
37acts similar to /dev/rtc and reacts on free-fall interrupts received 40acts similar to /dev/rtc and reacts on free-fall interrupts received
38from the device. It supports blocking operations, poll/select and 41from the device. It supports blocking operations, poll/select and
39fasync operation modes. You must read 1 bytes from the device. The 42fasync operation modes. You must read 1 bytes from the device. The
40result is number of free-fall interrupts since the last successful 43result is number of free-fall interrupts since the last successful
41read (or 255 if number of interrupts would not fit). 44read (or 255 if number of interrupts would not fit). See the hpfall.c
45file for an example on using the device.
42 46
43 47
44Axes orientation 48Axes orientation
@@ -55,7 +59,7 @@ the accelerometer are converted into a "standard" organisation of the axes
55 * If the laptop is put upside-down, Z becomes negative 59 * If the laptop is put upside-down, Z becomes negative
56 60
57If your laptop model is not recognized (cf "dmesg"), you can send an 61If your laptop model is not recognized (cf "dmesg"), you can send an
58email to the authors to add it to the database. When reporting a new 62email to the maintainer to add it to the database. When reporting a new
59laptop, please include the output of "dmidecode" plus the value of 63laptop, please include the output of "dmidecode" plus the value of
60/sys/devices/platform/lis3lv02d/position in these four cases. 64/sys/devices/platform/lis3lv02d/position in these four cases.
61 65