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Commit 0d0001dd authored by Jean Delvare's avatar Jean Delvare Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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[PATCH] HWMON: Improve the help text for CONFIG_HWMON 



Improve the help text for CONFIG_HWMON to let the users know how they
pick the right hardware monitoring driver(s) for their system.

Also fix a couple typos in the related documentation file and improve
some parts a bit.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent 114cc0c0

Documentation/hwmon/userspace-tools

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@@ -6,31 +6,32 @@ voltages, fans speed). They are often connected through an I2C bus, but some 
are also connected directly through the ISA bus.



The kernel drivers make the data from the sensor chips available in the /sys

virtual filesystem. Userspace tools are then used to display or set or the

data in a more friendly manner.

virtual filesystem. Userspace tools are then used to display the measured

values or configure the chips in a more friendly manner.



Lm-sensors

----------



Core set of utilites that will allow you to obtain health information,

Core set of utilities that will allow you to obtain health information,

setup monitoring limits etc. You can get them on their homepage

http://www.lm-sensors.nu/ or as a package from your Linux distribution.



If from website:

Get lmsensors from project web site. Please note, you need only userspace

part, so compile with "make user_install" target.

Get lm-sensors from project web site. Please note, you need only userspace

part, so compile with "make user" and install with "make user_install".



General hints to get things working:



0) get lm-sensors userspace utils

1) compile all drivers in I2C section as modules in your kernel

1) compile all drivers in I2C and Hardware Monitoring sections as modules

   in your kernel

2) run sensors-detect script, it will tell you what modules you need to load.

3) load them and run "sensors" command, you should see some results.

4) fix sensors.conf, labels, limits, fan divisors

5) if any more problems consult FAQ, or documentation



Other utilites

--------------

Other utilities

---------------



If you want some graphical indicators of system health look for applications

like: gkrellm, ksensors, xsensors, wmtemp, wmsensors, wmgtemp, ksysguardd,

drivers/hwmon/Kconfig

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	  should say Y here and also to the specific driver(s) for your

	  sensors chip(s) below.



	  To find out which specific driver(s) you need, use the

	  sensors-detect script from the lm_sensors package.  Read

	  <file:Documentation/hwmon/userspace-tools> for details.



	  This support can also be built as a module.  If so, the module

	  will be called hwmon.