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| author | Éric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net> | 2009-12-14 18:01:39 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-12-15 08:53:36 -0800 |
| commit | bc62c1471773fc32adcfc05100abd16fa2b6e126 (patch) | |
| tree | 34894261672d0c73c01b46ed92ebad7eb75ea8c4 /drivers/hwmon/Kconfig | |
| parent | 66c8569bf990064b3f11e0f211a81a46e0b627ff (diff) | |
| download | lwn-bc62c1471773fc32adcfc05100abd16fa2b6e126.tar.gz lwn-bc62c1471773fc32adcfc05100abd16fa2b6e126.zip | |
lis3: update documentation and comments
Most of the documentation and comments were written when the driver was
only supporting one type of chip, only via ACPI/HP. Update the info to
the much clearer understanding that we have now.
Signed-off-by: Éric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Signed-off-by: Samu Onkalo <samu.p.onkalo@nokia.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/hwmon/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/hwmon/Kconfig | 22 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/Kconfig b/drivers/hwmon/Kconfig index 9e640c62ebd9..95ccbe377f9c 100644 --- a/drivers/hwmon/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/hwmon/Kconfig @@ -1046,25 +1046,27 @@ config SENSORS_ATK0110 will be called asus_atk0110. config SENSORS_LIS3LV02D - tristate "STMicroeletronics LIS3LV02Dx three-axis digital accelerometer" + tristate "STMicroeletronics LIS3* three-axis digital accelerometer" depends on INPUT select INPUT_POLLDEV select NEW_LEDS select LEDS_CLASS default n help - This driver provides support for the LIS3LV02Dx accelerometer. In - particular, it can be found in a number of HP laptops, which have the - "Mobile Data Protection System 3D" or "3D DriveGuard" feature. On such - systems the driver should load automatically (via ACPI). The - accelerometer might also be found in other systems, connected via SPI - or I2C. The accelerometer data is readable via - /sys/devices/platform/lis3lv02d. + This driver provides support for the LIS3* accelerometers, such as the + LIS3LV02DL or the LIS331DL. In particular, it can be found in a number + of HP laptops, which have the "Mobile Data Protection System 3D" or + "3D DriveGuard" feature. On such systems the driver should load + automatically (via ACPI alias). The accelerometer might also be found + in other systems, connected via SPI or I2C. The accelerometer data is + readable via /sys/devices/platform/lis3lv02d. This driver also provides an absolute input class device, allowing - the laptop to act as a pinball machine-esque joystick. On HP laptops, + a laptop to act as a pinball machine-esque joystick. It provides also + a misc device which can be used to detect free-fall. On HP laptops, if the led infrastructure is activated, support for a led indicating - disk protection will be provided as hp:red:hddprotection. + disk protection will be provided as hp::hddprotect. For more + information on the feature, refer to Documentation/hwmon/lis3lv02d. This driver can also be built as modules. If so, the core module will be called lis3lv02d and a specific module for HP laptops will be |