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authorDavid George <david.george@ska.ac.za>2011-06-02 19:43:45 +0400
committerGuenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>2011-07-28 11:17:32 +0400
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hwmon: Driver for MAX1668
This patch adds support for MAX1668 and compatible temperature sensors. Signed-off-by: David George <david.george@ska.ac.za> [guenter.roeck@ericsson.com: minor cleanup of probe error path] Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
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+Kernel driver max1668
+=====================
+
+Supported chips:
+ * Maxim MAX1668, MAX1805 and MAX1989
+ Prefix: 'max1668'
+ Addresses scanned: I2C 0x18, 0x19, 0x1a, 0x29, 0x2a, 0x2b, 0x4c, 0x4d, 0x4e
+ Datasheet: http://datasheets.maxim-ic.com/en/ds/MAX1668-MAX1989.pdf
+
+Author:
+ David George <david.george@ska.ac.za>
+
+Description
+-----------
+
+This driver implements support for the Maxim MAX1668, MAX1805 and MAX1989
+chips.
+
+The three devices are very similar, but the MAX1805 has a reduced feature
+set; only two remote temperature inputs vs the four avaible on the other
+two ICs.
+
+The driver is able to distinguish between the devices and creates sysfs
+entries as follows:
+
+MAX1805, MAX1668 and MAX1989:
+
+temp1_input ro local (ambient) temperature
+temp1_max rw local temperature maximum threshold for alarm
+temp1_max_alarm ro local temperature maximum threshold alarm
+temp1_min rw local temperature minimum threshold for alarm
+temp1_min_alarm ro local temperature minimum threshold alarm
+temp2_input ro remote temperature 1
+temp2_max rw remote temperature 1 maximum threshold for alarm
+temp2_max_alarm ro remote temperature 1 maximum threshold alarm
+temp2_min rw remote temperature 1 minimum threshold for alarm
+temp2_min_alarm ro remote temperature 1 minimum threshold alarm
+temp3_input ro remote temperature 2
+temp3_max rw remote temperature 2 maximum threshold for alarm
+temp3_max_alarm ro remote temperature 2 maximum threshold alarm
+temp3_min rw remote temperature 2 minimum threshold for alarm
+temp3_min_alarm ro remote temperature 2 minimum threshold alarm
+
+MAX1668 and MAX1989 only:
+temp4_input ro remote temperature 3
+temp4_max rw remote temperature 3 maximum threshold for alarm
+temp4_max_alarm ro remote temperature 3 maximum threshold alarm
+temp4_min rw remote temperature 3 minimum threshold for alarm
+temp4_min_alarm ro remote temperature 3 minimum threshold alarm
+temp5_input ro remote temperature 4
+temp5_max rw remote temperature 4 maximum threshold for alarm
+temp5_max_alarm ro remote temperature 4 maximum threshold alarm
+temp5_min rw remote temperature 4 minimum threshold for alarm
+temp5_min_alarm ro remote temperature 4 minimum threshold alarm
+
+Module Parameters
+-----------------
+
+* read_only: int
+ Set to non-zero if you wish to prevent write access to alarm thresholds.