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authorIra W. Snyder <iws@ovro.caltech.edu>2010-08-14 21:08:49 +0200
committerJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>2010-08-14 21:08:49 +0200
commit5950ec8d3e47a08ec0b678a0e0ba5d1b9b62dd8e (patch)
tree8cac7d3dadf50be14b2ac0441e61ecd8935f27e0 /Documentation
parentb9783dcebe952bf73449fe70a19ee4814adc81a0 (diff)
hwmon: (ltc4245) Expose all GPIO pins as analog voltages
Add support for exposing all GPIO pins as analog voltages. Though this is not an ideal use of the chip, some hardware engineers may decide that the LTC4245 meets their design requirements when studying the datasheet. The GPIO pins are sampled in round-robin fashion, meaning that a slow reader will see stale data. A userspace application can detect this, because it will get -EAGAIN when reading from a sysfs file which contains stale data. Users can choose to use this feature on a per-chip basis by using either platform data or the OF device tree (where applicable). Signed-off-by: Ira W. Snyder <iws@ovro.caltech.edu> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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@@ -72,9 +72,31 @@ in6_min_alarm 5v output undervoltage alarm
in7_min_alarm 3v output undervoltage alarm
in8_min_alarm Vee (-12v) output undervoltage alarm
-in9_input GPIO voltage data
+in9_input GPIO voltage data (see note 1)
+in10_input GPIO voltage data (see note 1)
+in11_input GPIO voltage data (see note 1)
power1_input 12v power usage (mW)
power2_input 5v power usage (mW)
power3_input 3v power usage (mW)
power4_input Vee (-12v) power usage (mW)
+
+
+Note 1
+------
+
+If you have NOT configured the driver to sample all GPIO pins as analog
+voltages, then the in10_input and in11_input sysfs attributes will not be
+created. The driver will sample the GPIO pin that is currently connected to the
+ADC as an analog voltage, and report the value in in9_input.
+
+If you have configured the driver to sample all GPIO pins as analog voltages,
+then they will be sampled in round-robin fashion. If userspace reads too
+slowly, -EAGAIN will be returned when you read the sysfs attribute containing
+the sensor reading.
+
+The LTC4245 chip can be configured to sample all GPIO pins with two methods:
+1) platform data -- see include/linux/i2c/ltc4245.h
+2) OF device tree -- add the "ltc4245,use-extra-gpios" property to each chip
+
+The default mode of operation is to sample a single GPIO pin.