Re: [PATCH v5 03/10] Documentation: hwmon: Add OCC documentation

Randy Dunlap
2018-08-31T23:01:10Z

On 08/30/2018 02:32 PM, Eddie James wrote:
> Document the hwmon interface for the OCC.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eddie James <eajames@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Hi,
Please see comments below.

> ---
> Documentation/hwmon/occ | 112 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 112 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/hwmon/occ
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/occ b/Documentation/hwmon/occ
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..adc2fa4
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/occ
> @@ -0,0 +1,112 @@
> +Kernel driver occ-hwmon
> +=======================
> +
> +Supported chips:
> + * POWER8
> + * POWER9
> +
> +Author: Eddie James <eajames@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> +
> +Description
> +-----------
> +
> +This driver supports hardware monitoring for the On-Chip Controller (OCC)
> +embedded on POWER processors. The OCC is a device that collects and aggregates
> +sensor data from the processor and the system. The OCC can provide the raw
> +sensor data as well as perform thermal and power management on the system.
> +
> +The P8 version of this driver is a client driver of I2C. It may be probed
> +manually if an "ibm,p8-occ-hwmon" compatible device is found under the
> +appropriate I2C bus node in the device-tree.
> +
> +The P9 version of this driver is a client driver of the FSI-based OCC driver.
> +It will be probed automatically by the FSI-based OCC driver.
> +
> +Sysfs entries
> +-------------
> +
> +The following attributes are supported. All attributes are read-only unless
> +specified.
> +
> +The OCC sensor ID is an integer that represents the unique identififer of the

identifier

> +sensor with respect to the OCC. For example, a temperature sensor for the 3rd

prefer s/3rd/third/

> +DIMM slot in the system may have a sensor ID of 7. This mapping is unavailable
> +to the device driver, which must therefore export the sensor ID as-is.
> +
> +Some entries are only present with certain OCC sensor versions or only on
> +certain OCCs in the system. The version number is not exported to the user
> +but can be inferred.

[snip]

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~Randy