Hardware monitoring sysfs attributes are used and displayed by unrestricted
userspace applications. Standard attributes therefore have to be world
readable, since otherwise those userspace applications would either have
to run as super-user or display an error. None of those makes sense.
Clarify the expected scope of attribute access in the ABI document.
Cc: Naveen Krishna Chatradhi <nchatrad@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
New attributes (rated_min/rated_max) are being added the hwmon ABI.
They are needed to cover rated values documented by PMBus
specification:
PMBus Power System Mgt Protocol Specification - Part II – Revision 1.3.1,
chapters: 22.3.1 - 22.3.10, 22.3.15
Signed-off-by: Zbigniew Lukwinski <zbigniew.lukwinski@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1596224237-32280-2-git-send-email-zbigniew.lukwinski@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Now that all files were converted to ReST format, rename them
and add an index.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
2019-04-17 10:37:23 -07:00
Renamed from Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface (Browse further)
