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authorLachlan McIlroy <lachlan@redback.melbourne.sgi.com>2008-05-19 15:09:05 +1000
committerLachlan McIlroy <lachlan@redback.melbourne.sgi.com>2008-05-19 15:09:05 +1000
commitc203e45f069af47ca7623e4dcd8c00bfba2722e4 (patch)
tree4563115b6565dcfd97015c1c9366fb3d07cabf19 /Documentation/hwmon
parenta94477da38e0b261a7ecea71f4c95a3bcd5be69c (diff)
parentb8291ad07a7f3b5b990900f0001198ac23ba893e (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 into for-linus
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/hwmon')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/hwmon/adt74733
-rw-r--r--Documentation/hwmon/w83l785ts3
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/adt7473 b/Documentation/hwmon/adt7473
index 22d8b19046a..2126de34c71 100644
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/adt7473
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/adt7473
@@ -69,7 +69,8 @@ point2: Set the pwm speed at a higher temperature bound.
The ADT7473 will scale the pwm between the lower and higher pwm speed when
the temperature is between the two temperature boundaries. PWM values range
-from 0 (off) to 255 (full speed).
+from 0 (off) to 255 (full speed). Fan speed will be set to maximum when the
+temperature sensor associated with the PWM control exceeds temp#_max.
Notes
-----
diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/w83l785ts b/Documentation/hwmon/w83l785ts
index 1841cedc25b..bd1fa9d4468 100644
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/w83l785ts
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/w83l785ts
@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ Known Issues
------------
On some systems (Asus), the BIOS is known to interfere with the driver
-and cause read errors. The driver will retry a given number of times
+and cause read errors. Or maybe the W83L785TS-S chip is simply unreliable,
+we don't really know. The driver will retry a given number of times
(5 by default) and then give up, returning the old value (or 0 if
there is no old value). It seems to work well enough so that you should
not notice anything. Thanks to James Bolt for helping test this feature.