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| author | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2012-04-08 19:48:52 (GMT) |
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| committer | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2012-04-08 19:48:52 (GMT) |
| commit | e75d660672ddd11704b7f0fdb8ff21968587b266 (patch) | |
| tree | ccb9c107744c10b553c0373e450bee3971d16c00 /Documentation/hwmon/sch5627 | |
| parent | 61282f37927143e45b03153f3e7b48d6b702147a (diff) | |
| parent | 0034102808e0dbbf3a2394b82b1bb40b5778de9e (diff) | |
| download | linux-e75d660672ddd11704b7f0fdb8ff21968587b266.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Merge with latest Linus' tree, as I have incoming patches
that fix code that is newer than current HEAD of for-next.
Conflicts:
drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c
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diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/sch5627 b/Documentation/hwmon/sch5627 index 446a054..0551d26 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 |