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authorJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>2009-09-15 19:18:14 +0400
committerJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>2009-09-15 19:18:14 +0400
commitafc31875fa5774dbc117f8c62034d77390156edc (patch)
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parent61cba5c244bd52e91c01e9f79abba30e54f68dd8 (diff)
downloadlinux-afc31875fa5774dbc117f8c62034d77390156edc.tar.xz
hwmon: (pcf8591) Documentation clean-ups
Clean up the pcf8591 driver documentation: * The PCF8591 chip is now an NXP product. * Fix a sysfs path. * Fix the name of sysfs attributes. * And a few other random fixes. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
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1 files changed, 15 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/pcf8591 b/Documentation/hwmon/pcf8591
index 5628fcf4207f..e76a7892f68e 100644
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/pcf8591
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/pcf8591
@@ -2,11 +2,11 @@ Kernel driver pcf8591
=====================
Supported chips:
- * Philips PCF8591
+ * Philips/NXP PCF8591
Prefix: 'pcf8591'
Addresses scanned: I2C 0x48 - 0x4f
- Datasheet: Publicly available at the Philips Semiconductor website
- http://www.semiconductors.philips.com/pip/PCF8591P.html
+ Datasheet: Publicly available at the NXP website
+ http://www.nxp.com/pip/PCF8591_6.html
Authors:
Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
@@ -16,9 +16,10 @@ Authors:
Description
-----------
+
The PCF8591 is an 8-bit A/D and D/A converter (4 analog inputs and one
-analog output) for the I2C bus produced by Philips Semiconductors. It
-is designed to provide a byte I2C interface to up to 4 separate devices.
+analog output) for the I2C bus produced by Philips Semiconductors (now NXP).
+It is designed to provide a byte I2C interface to up to 4 separate devices.
The PCF8591 has 4 analog inputs programmable as single-ended or
differential inputs :
@@ -58,8 +59,8 @@ Accessing PCF8591 via /sys interface
-------------------------------------
! Be careful !
-The PCF8591 is plainly impossible to detect ! Stupid chip.
-So every chip with address in the interval [48..4f] is
+The PCF8591 is plainly impossible to detect! Stupid chip.
+So every chip with address in the interval [0x48..0x4f] is
detected as PCF8591. If you have other chips in this address
range, the workaround is to load this module after the one
for your others chips.
@@ -67,19 +68,20 @@ for your others chips.
On detection (i.e. insmod, modprobe et al.), directories are being
created for each detected PCF8591:
-/sys/bus/devices/<0>-<1>/
+/sys/bus/i2c/devices/<0>-<1>/
where <0> is the bus the chip was detected on (e. g. i2c-0)
and <1> the chip address ([48..4f])
Inside these directories, there are such files:
-in0, in1, in2, in3, out0_enable, out0_output, name
+in0_input, in1_input, in2_input, in3_input, out0_enable, out0_output, name
Name contains chip name.
-The in0, in1, in2 and in3 files are RO. Reading gives the value of the
-corresponding channel. Depending on the current analog inputs configuration,
-files in2 and/or in3 do not exist. Values range are from 0 to 255 for single
-ended inputs and -128 to +127 for differential inputs (8-bit ADC).
+The in0_input, in1_input, in2_input and in3_input files are RO. Reading gives
+the value of the corresponding channel. Depending on the current analog inputs
+configuration, files in2_input and in3_input may not exist. Values range
+from 0 to 255 for single ended inputs and -128 to +127 for differential inputs
+(8-bit ADC).
The out0_enable file is RW. Reading gives "1" for analog output enabled and
"0" for analog output disabled. Writing accepts "0" and "1" accordingly.