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authorHenrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>2007-09-25 06:38:03 -0300
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2007-09-25 15:21:53 -0400
commit7fd400297978a2cf7a74344fb22020e9479b4f69 (patch)
treeadac241038f638b9c73ca2513caa4f13bdcd48f5 /Documentation
parent3e5ce914bd17335ca74a7c7b06a776c6be6ca434 (diff)
ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: use a separate platform device for hwmon and name it (v2)
Use a separate platform device and driver ("thinkpad_hwmon") to attach hwmon attributes and class, and add a name attribute of "thinkpad" to it, which defines the hwmon device name for libsensors4. This makes thinkpad-acpi compatible with libsensors4 from lm-sensors, and the platform driver and device split will make it much easier to separate hwmon functionality into its own module later on. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt25
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt b/Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt
index 60953d6c919..3b95bbacc77 100644
--- a/Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt
+++ b/Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt
@@ -105,10 +105,15 @@ The version of thinkpad-acpi's sysfs interface is exported by the driver
as a driver attribute (see below).
Sysfs driver attributes are on the driver's sysfs attribute space,
-for 2.6.20 this is /sys/bus/platform/drivers/thinkpad_acpi/.
+for 2.6.23 this is /sys/bus/platform/drivers/thinkpad_acpi/ and
+/sys/bus/platform/drivers/thinkpad_hwmon/
-Sysfs device attributes are on the driver's sysfs attribute space,
-for 2.6.20 this is /sys/devices/platform/thinkpad_acpi/.
+Sysfs device attributes are on the thinkpad_acpi device sysfs attribute
+space, for 2.6.23 this is /sys/devices/platform/thinkpad_acpi/.
+
+Sysfs device attributes for the sensors and fan are on the
+thinkpad_hwmon device's sysfs attribute space, but you should locate it
+looking for a hwmon device with the name attribute of "thinkpad".
Driver version
--------------
@@ -766,7 +771,7 @@ Temperature sensors
-------------------
procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal
-sysfs device attributes: (hwmon) temp*_input
+sysfs device attributes: (hwmon "thinkpad") temp*_input
Most ThinkPads include six or more separate temperature sensors but only
expose the CPU temperature through the standard ACPI methods. This
@@ -989,7 +994,9 @@ Fan control and monitoring: fan speed, fan enable/disable
---------------------------------------------------------
procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/fan
-sysfs device attributes: (hwmon) fan_input, pwm1, pwm1_enable
+sysfs device attributes: (hwmon "thinkpad") fan1_input, pwm1,
+ pwm1_enable
+sysfs hwmon driver attributes: fan_watchdog
NOTE NOTE NOTE: fan control operations are disabled by default for
safety reasons. To enable them, the module parameter "fan_control=1"
@@ -1131,7 +1138,7 @@ hwmon device attribute fan1_input:
which can take up to two minutes. May return rubbish on older
ThinkPads.
-driver attribute fan_watchdog:
+hwmon driver attribute fan_watchdog:
Fan safety watchdog timer interval, in seconds. Minimum is
1 second, maximum is 120 seconds. 0 disables the watchdog.
@@ -1233,3 +1240,9 @@ Sysfs interface changelog:
layer, the radio switch generates input event EV_RADIO,
and the driver enables hot key handling by default in
the firmware.
+
+0x020000: ABI fix: added a separate hwmon platform device and
+ driver, which must be located by name (thinkpad)
+ and the hwmon class for libsensors4 (lm-sensors 3)
+ compatibility. Moved all hwmon attributes to this
+ new platform device.