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| author |   Eddie James <eajames@linux.ibm.com> | 2019-04-16 15:54:28 +0000 |
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| committer |   Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> | 2019-04-16 15:15:52 -0700 |
| commit | d2a9b01ff68210cbe78c499858d51890938dee86 (patch) | |
| tree | 04209f5a99cd3efc679d6427214abf4cf65fab8d /drivers/hwmon | |
| parent | hwmon: (occ) Prevent sysfs error attribute from returning error (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-d2a9b01ff68210cbe78c499858d51890938dee86.tar.xz linux-dev-d2a9b01ff68210cbe78c499858d51890938dee86.zip | |
hwmon: (occ) Add more details to Kconfig help text
The help text needs to spell out how the driver runs on a BMC, as it
previously seemed to indicate it ran on a POWER processor.
Signed-off-by: Eddie James <eajames@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/hwmon')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/hwmon/occ/Kconfig | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/occ/Kconfig b/drivers/hwmon/occ/Kconfig index 2a3869f15026..1658634a053e 100644 --- a/drivers/hwmon/occ/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/hwmon/occ/Kconfig @@ -9,8 +9,10 @@ config SENSORS_OCC_P8_I2C select SENSORS_OCC help This option enables support for monitoring sensors provided by the - On-Chip Controller (OCC) on a POWER8 processor. Communications with - the OCC are established through I2C bus. + On-Chip Controller (OCC) on a POWER8 processor. However, this driver + can only run on a baseboard management controller (BMC) connected to + the P8, not the POWER processor itself. Communications with the OCC are + established through I2C bus. This driver can also be built as a module. If so, the module will be called occ-p8-hwmon. @@ -22,8 +24,10 @@ config SENSORS_OCC_P9_SBE select SENSORS_OCC help This option enables support for monitoring sensors provided by the - On-Chip Controller (OCC) on a POWER9 processor. Communications with - the OCC are established through SBE fifo on an FSI bus. + On-Chip Controller (OCC) on a POWER9 processor. However, this driver + can only run on a baseboard management controller (BMC) connected to + the P9, not the POWER processor itself. Communications with the OCC are + established through SBE fifo on an FSI bus. This driver can also be built as a module. If so, the module will be called occ-p9-hwmon. |