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| author |   Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2012-03-26 17:18:44 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2012-03-26 17:19:03 +0200 |
| commit | 7fd52392c56361a40f0c630a82b36b95ca31eac6 (patch) | |
| tree | 14091de24c6b28ea4cae9826f98aeedb7be091f5 /Documentation/hwmon/sch5627 | |
| parent | perf: Move mmap page data_head offset assertion out of header (diff) | |
| parent | Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.4-tag-two' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-7fd52392c56361a40f0c630a82b36b95ca31eac6.tar.xz linux-dev-7fd52392c56361a40f0c630a82b36b95ca31eac6.zip | |
Merge branch 'linus' into perf/urgent
Merge reason: we need to fix a non-trivial merge conflict.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/sch5627 b/Documentation/hwmon/sch5627 index 446a054e4912..0551d266c51c 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/sch5627 +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/sch5627 @@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ Description SMSC SCH5627 Super I/O chips include complete hardware monitoring capabilities. They can monitor up to 5 voltages, 4 fans and 8 temperatures. +The SMSC SCH5627 hardware monitoring part also contains an integrated +watchdog. In order for this watchdog to function some motherboard specific +initialization most be done by the BIOS, so if the watchdog is not enabled +by the BIOS the sch5627 driver will not register a watchdog device. + The hardware monitoring part of the SMSC SCH5627 is accessed by talking through an embedded microcontroller. An application note describing the protocol for communicating with the microcontroller is available upon |