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| author | Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com> | 2011-04-18 09:55:59 -0700 |
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| committer | Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com> | 2011-04-19 08:50:00 -0700 |
| commit | e428d8d3bd164ad36fb545b2162bdfcb8100dc08 (patch) | |
| tree | 693724251b33107589fbd6230a2eb4d84091561a /Documentation/hwmon | |
| parent | 4af33f1726b03997f70180466769cf28ddcaef85 (diff) | |
hwmon: (max34440) Add driver documentation
MAX34440 and MAX34441 have their own driver, thus there should be explicit
documentation instead of mentioning the chips in the generic PMBus driver
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Grennan <tom.grennan@ericsson.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/hwmon')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/hwmon/max34440 | 79 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/hwmon/pmbus | 10 |
2 files changed, 79 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/max34440 b/Documentation/hwmon/max34440 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..6c525dd07d5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/max34440 @@ -0,0 +1,79 @@ +Kernel driver max34440 +====================== + +Supported chips: + * Maxim MAX34440 + Prefixes: 'max34440' + Addresses scanned: - + Datasheet: http://datasheets.maxim-ic.com/en/ds/MAX34440.pdf + * Maxim MAX34441 + PMBus 5-Channel Power-Supply Manager and Intelligent Fan Controller + Prefixes: 'max34441' + Addresses scanned: - + Datasheet: http://datasheets.maxim-ic.com/en/ds/MAX34441.pdf + +Author: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com> + + +Description +----------- + +This driver supports hardware montoring for Maxim MAX34440 PMBus 6-Channel +Power-Supply Manager and MAX34441 PMBus 5-Channel Power-Supply Manager +and Intelligent Fan Controller. + +The driver is a client driver to the core PMBus driver. Please see +Documentation/hwmon/pmbus for details on PMBus client drivers. + + +Usage Notes +----------- + +This driver does not auto-detect devices. You will have to instantiate the +devices explicitly. Please see Documentation/i2c/instantiating-devices for +details. + + +Platform data support +--------------------- + +The driver supports standard PMBus driver platform data. + + +Sysfs entries +------------- + +The following attributes are supported. Limits are read-write; all other +attributes are read-only. + +in[1-6]_label "vout[1-6]". +in[1-6]_input Measured voltage. From READ_VOUT register. +in[1-6]_min Minumum Voltage. From VOUT_UV_WARN_LIMIT register. +in[1-6]_max Maximum voltage. From VOUT_OV_WARN_LIMIT register. +in[1-6]_lcrit Critical minumum Voltage. VOUT_UV_FAULT_LIMIT register. +in[1-6]_crit Critical maximum voltage. From VOUT_OV_FAULT_LIMIT register. +in[1-6]_min_alarm Voltage low alarm. From VOLTAGE_UV_WARNING status. +in[1-6]_max_alarm Voltage high alarm. From VOLTAGE_OV_WARNING status. +in[1-6]_lcrit_alarm Voltage critical low alarm. From VOLTAGE_UV_FAULT status. +in[1-6]_crit_alarm Voltage critical high alarm. From VOLTAGE_OV_FAULT status. + +curr[1-6]_label "iout[1-6]". +curr[1-6]_input Measured current. From READ_IOUT register. +curr[1-6]_max Maximum current. From IOUT_OC_WARN_LIMIT register. +curr[1-6]_crit Critical maximum current. From IOUT_OC_FAULT_LIMIT register. +curr[1-6]_max_alarm Current high alarm. From IOUT_OC_WARNING status. +curr[1-6]_crit_alarm Current critical high alarm. From IOUT_OC_FAULT status. + + in6 and curr6 attributes only exist for MAX34440. + +temp[1-8]_input Measured temperatures. From READ_TEMPERATURE_1 register. + temp1 is the chip's internal temperature. temp2..temp5 + are remote I2C temperature sensors. For MAX34441, temp6 + is a remote thermal-diode sensor. For MAX34440, temp6..8 + are remote I2C temperature sensors. +temp[1-8]_max Maximum temperature. From OT_WARN_LIMIT register. +temp[1-8]_crit Critical high temperature. From OT_FAULT_LIMIT register. +temp[1-8]_max_alarm Temperature high alarm. +temp[1-8]_crit_alarm Temperature critical high alarm. + + temp7 and temp8 attributes only exist for MAX34440. diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/pmbus b/Documentation/hwmon/pmbus index e3c527a9788..5e462fc7f99 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/pmbus +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/pmbus @@ -13,16 +13,6 @@ Supported chips: Prefix: 'ltc2978' Addresses scanned: - Datasheet: http://cds.linear.com/docs/Datasheet/2978fa.pdf - * Maxim MAX34440 - PMBus 6-Channel Power-Supply Manager - Prefixes: 'max34440' - Addresses scanned: - - Datasheet: http://datasheets.maxim-ic.com/en/ds/MAX34440.pdf - * Maxim MAX34441 - PMBus 5-Channel Power-Supply Manager and Intelligent Fan Controller - Prefixes: 'max34441' - Addresses scanned: - - Datasheet: http://datasheets.maxim-ic.com/en/ds/MAX34441.pdf * Generic PMBus devices Prefix: 'pmbus' Addresses scanned: - |