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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-07-25 14:10:34 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-07-25 14:10:34 -0700 |
commit | 750e06992d49666a7589aac555eb3bb68e4dbb88 (patch) | |
tree | 7ee3d85adf256491dae89e5b049bb28ef1a1680c /Documentation | |
parent | d3ec4844d449cf7af9e749f73ba2052fb7b72fc2 (diff) | |
parent | 156e2d1adc03e17f18f98d297f7757fc6d93a589 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging
* 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging:
hwmon: (lm78) Become the maintainer
hwmon: (lm78) Make ISA interface depend on CONFIG_ISA
hwmon: (lm78) Avoid forward declarations
hwmon: (sht15) Correct a comment mistake
hwmon: (max1111) Avoid extra memory allocations
hwmon: (it87) Add chassis intrusion detection support
hwmon: (via-cputemp) Add VID reporting support
hwmon-vid: Add support for VIA family 6 model D CPU
hwmon: New driver sch5636
hwmon: (sch5627) Factor out some code shared with sch5636 driver
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/hwmon/it87 | 3 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/hwmon/lm78 | 3 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/hwmon/sch5636 | 31 |
3 files changed, 35 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/it87 b/Documentation/hwmon/it87 index 38425f0..6f496a5 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/it87 +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/it87 @@ -76,7 +76,8 @@ IT8718F, IT8720F, IT8721F, IT8726F, IT8758E and SiS950 chips. These chips are 'Super I/O chips', supporting floppy disks, infrared ports, joysticks and other miscellaneous stuff. For hardware monitoring, they include an 'environment controller' with 3 temperature sensors, 3 fan -rotation speed sensors, 8 voltage sensors, and associated alarms. +rotation speed sensors, 8 voltage sensors, associated alarms, and chassis +intrusion detection. The IT8712F and IT8716F additionally feature VID inputs, used to report the Vcore voltage of the processor. The early IT8712F have 5 VID pins, diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/lm78 b/Documentation/hwmon/lm78 index 60932e2..2bdc881 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/lm78 +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/lm78 @@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ Supported chips: Datasheet: Publicly available at the National Semiconductor website http://www.national.com/ -Author: Frodo Looijaard <frodol@dds.nl> +Authors: Frodo Looijaard <frodol@dds.nl> + Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Description ----------- diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/sch5636 b/Documentation/hwmon/sch5636 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f83bd1c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/sch5636 @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +Kernel driver sch5636 +===================== + +Supported chips: + * SMSC SCH5636 + Prefix: 'sch5636' + Addresses scanned: none, address read from Super I/O config space + +Author: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> + + +Description +----------- + +SMSC SCH5636 Super I/O chips include an embedded microcontroller for +hardware monitoring solutions, allowing motherboard manufacturers to create +their own custom hwmon solution based upon the SCH5636. + +Currently the sch5636 driver only supports the Fujitsu Theseus SCH5636 based +hwmon solution. The sch5636 driver runs a sanity check on loading to ensure +it is dealing with a Fujitsu Theseus and not with another custom SCH5636 based +hwmon solution. + +The Fujitsu Theseus can monitor up to 5 voltages, 8 fans and 16 +temperatures. Note that the driver detects how many fan headers / +temperature sensors are actually implemented on the motherboard, so you will +likely see fewer temperature and fan inputs. + +An application note describing the Theseus' registers, as well as an +application note describing the protocol for communicating with the +microcontroller is available upon request. Please mail me if you want a copy. |