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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/watchdog/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/watchdog/Kconfig | 18 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig b/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig index e8d45b6ccef..b1ccc04f3c9 100644 --- a/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig @@ -1007,24 +1007,16 @@ config WDTPCI ---help--- If you have a PCI-WDT500/501 watchdog board, say Y here, otherwise N. - To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the - module will be called wdt_pci. - -config WDT_501_PCI - bool "PCI-WDT501 features" - depends on WDTPCI - help - Saying Y here and creating a character special file /dev/temperature - with major number 10 and minor number 131 ("man mknod") will give - you a thermometer inside your computer: reading from - /dev/temperature yields one byte, the temperature in degrees - Fahrenheit. This works only if you have a PCI-WDT501 watchdog board - installed. + If you have a PCI-WDT501 watchdog board then you can enable the + temperature sensor by setting the type parameter to 501. If you want to enable the Fan Tachometer on the PCI-WDT501, then you can do this via the tachometer parameter. Only do this if you have a fan tachometer actually set up. + To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the + module will be called wdt_pci. + # # USB-based Watchdog Cards # |