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Guenter Roeck 50bf46509f hwmon: (lm77) Do not preserve hysteresis when updating critical temp limit 
Updating the hysteresis value when updating the critical temperature limit
was following the rule of 'least surprise'. However, it had the undesirable
side effect of changing the hysteresis for all other attributes, which
defeats the purpose of least surprise. In addition, it could result in
invalid hysteresis values if the resulting hysteresis was too large. In such
cases the resulting hysteresis ended up changed anyway, which again defeats
the purpose. So drop that code and document the new behavior.

Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
2014-05-21 16:02:20 -07:00

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Kernel driver lm77

Supported chips:

  • National Semiconductor LM77 Prefix: 'lm77' Addresses scanned: I2C 0x48 - 0x4b Datasheet: Publicly available at the National Semiconductor website http://www.national.com/

Author: Andras BALI drewie@freemail.hu

Description

The LM77 implements one temperature sensor. The temperature sensor incorporates a band-gap type temperature sensor, 10-bit ADC, and a digital comparator with user-programmable upper and lower limit values.

The LM77 implements 3 limits: low (temp1_min), high (temp1_max) and critical (temp1_crit.) It also implements an hysteresis mechanism which applies to all 3 limits. The relative difference is stored in a single register on the chip, which means that the relative difference between the limit and its hysteresis is always the same for all 3 limits.

This implementation detail implies the following:

  • When setting a limit, its hysteresis will automatically follow, the difference staying unchanged. For example, if the old critical limit was 80 degrees C, and the hysteresis was 75 degrees C, and you change the critical limit to 90 degrees C, then the hysteresis will automatically change to 85 degrees C.
  • All 3 hysteresis can't be set independently. We decided to make temp1_crit_hyst writable, while temp1_min_hyst and temp1_max_hyst are read-only. Setting temp1_crit_hyst writes the difference between temp1_crit_hyst and temp1_crit into the chip, and the same relative hysteresis applies automatically to the low and high limits.
  • The limits should be set before the hysteresis.