On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:55:04 -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 04:13:21AM -0500, Jean Delvare wrote: > > On the LM64, the tachometer function has a dedicated pin and fan speed > > monitoring is always enabled. > > > > Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > --- > > Documentation/hwmon/lm63 | 4 +++- > > drivers/hwmon/lm63.c | 3 ++- > > 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > > > --- linux-3.3-rc0.orig/Documentation/hwmon/lm63 2012-01-13 09:09:25.000000000 +0100 > > +++ linux-3.3-rc0/Documentation/hwmon/lm63 2012-01-13 09:54:38.000000000 +0100 > > @@ -54,7 +54,9 @@ value for measuring the speed of the fan > > Note that the pin used for fan monitoring is shared with an alert out > > function. Depending on how the board designer wanted to use the chip, fan > > speed monitoring will or will not be possible. The proper chip configuration > > -is left to the BIOS, and the driver will blindly trust it. > > +is left to the BIOS, and the driver will blindly trust it. Only the original > > +LM63 suffers from this limitation, the LM64 and LM96163 have separate pins > > +for fan monitoring and alert out. > > > Maybe add a note here indicating that fan control is always enabled on LM64 only ? You mean fan monitoring here, not fan control. > Otherwise people may wonder why fans don't (always) show up on LM96163. Will clarify, thanks for the suggestion. -- Jean Delvare _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
