From e1a8e913f97e36cc5a23a24a8b4717e84998f13c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kaiwan N Billimoria Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 22:00:05 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] lm70: New hardware monitoring driver This driver implements support for the National Semiconductor LM70 temperature sensor. The LM70 temperature sensor chip supports a single temperature sensor. It communicates with a host processor (or microcontroller) via an SPI/Microwire Bus interface. Communication with the LM70 is simple: when the temperature is to be sensed, the driver accesses the LM70 using SPI communication: 16 SCLK cycles comprise the MOSI/MISO loop. At the end of the transfer, the 11-bit 2's complement digital temperature (sent via the SIO line), is available in the driver for interpretation. This driver makes use of the kernel's in-core SPI support. Signed-off-by: Kaiwan N Billimoria Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/hwmon/lm70 | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/hwmon/lm70 (limited to 'Documentation/hwmon') diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/lm70 b/Documentation/hwmon/lm70 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..2bdd3feebf5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/lm70 @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +Kernel driver lm70 +================== + +Supported chip: + * National Semiconductor LM70 + Datasheet: http://www.national.com/pf/LM/LM70.html + +Author: + Kaiwan N Billimoria + +Description +----------- + +This driver implements support for the National Semiconductor LM70 +temperature sensor. + +The LM70 temperature sensor chip supports a single temperature sensor. +It communicates with a host processor (or microcontroller) via an +SPI/Microwire Bus interface. + +Communication with the LM70 is simple: when the temperature is to be sensed, +the driver accesses the LM70 using SPI communication: 16 SCLK cycles +comprise the MOSI/MISO loop. At the end of the transfer, the 11-bit 2's +complement digital temperature (sent via the SIO line), is available in the +driver for interpretation. This driver makes use of the kernel's in-core +SPI support. + +Thanks to +--------- +Jean Delvare for mentoring the hwmon-side driver +development. -- cgit v1.2.3