diff --git a/doc/chips/w83l785ts b/doc/chips/w83l785ts index 2f8ae5cc..c29d9ec2 100644 --- a/doc/chips/w83l785ts +++ b/doc/chips/w83l785ts @@ -1,14 +1,14 @@ Kernel driver `w83l785ts.o' =========================== -Status: Preliminary, almost not tested +Status: Beta, slightly tested Supported chips: * Winbond W83L785TS-S Prefix: `w83l785ts' Addresses scanned: I2C 0x2e - Data sheet: Publicly available at the Winbond USA website - http://www.winbond-usa.com/products/winbond_products/pdfs/PCIC/W83L785TS-S.pdf + Datasheet: Publicly available at the Winbond USA website + http://www.winbond-usa.com/products/winbond_products/pdfs/PCIC/W83L785TS-S.pdf Author: Jean Delvare @@ -39,17 +39,30 @@ Description The W83L785TS-S is a digital temperature sensor. It senses the temperature of a single external diode. The high limit is -defined as 85 or 100 degrees C through a combination of external -resistors, so the user cannot change it. +theoretically defined as 85 or 100 degrees C through a combination +of external resistors, so the user cannot change it. Values seen so +far suggest that the two possible limits are actually 95 and 110 +degrees C. The datasheet is rather poor and obviously inaccurate +on several points including this one. All temperature values are given in degrees Celcius. Resolution -is 1.0 degree. See the data sheet for details. +is 1.0 degree. See the datasheet for details. The w83l785ts driver will not update its values more frequently than every other second; reading them more often will do no harm, but will return 'old' values. +Known Issues +------------ + +On some systems (Asus), the BIOS is known to interfere with the driver +and cause read errors. The driver will retry a given number of times +(5 by default) and then give up, returning the old value (or 0 if +there is no old value). It seems to work well enough so that you should +not notice anything. Thanks to James Bolt for helping test this feature. + + Chip Features ------------- @@ -60,5 +73,5 @@ temp - - R- 0 temp_high temp temp R- 0 LABEL FEATURE SYMBOL SYSCTL FILE:N -temp SENSORS_W83L785TS_TEMP temp:3 +temp SENSORS_W83L785TS_TEMP temp:2 temp_high SENSORS_W83L785TS_TEMP_OVER temp:1