linux-stable/Documentation/hwmon/max15301.rst
Erik Rosen 1e4063329f hwmon: (pmbus) Add pmbus driver for MAX15301
Add pmbus driver support for Maxim MAX15301 InTune Automatically
Compensated Digital PoL Controller with Driver and PMBus Telemetry

Even though the specification does not specifically mention it,
extensive empirical testing has revealed that auto-detection of
limit-registers will fail in a random fashion unless the delay
parameter is set to above about 80us. The default delay is set
to 100us to include some safety margin.

This patch is tested on a Flex BMR461 converter module.

Signed-off-by: Erik Rosen <erik.rosen@metormote.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210419101251.24840-1-erik.rosen@metormote.com
[groeck: Added rationale for delay to driver header]
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
2021-04-20 06:50:14 -07:00

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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
Kernel driver max15301
======================
Supported chips:
* Maxim MAX15301
Prefix: 'max15301', 'bmr461'
Addresses scanned: -
Datasheet: https://datasheets.maximintegrated.com/en/ds/MAX15301.pdf
Author: Erik Rosen <erik.rosen@metormote.com>
Description
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This driver supports hardware monitoring for Maxim MAX15301 controller chip and
compatible modules.
The driver is a client driver to the core PMBus driver. Please see
Documentation/hwmon/pmbus.rst and Documentation.hwmon/pmbus-core for details
on PMBus client drivers.
Usage Notes
-----------
This driver does not auto-detect devices. You will have to instantiate the
devices explicitly. Please see Documentation/i2c/instantiating-devices.rst for
details.
Platform data support
---------------------
The driver supports standard PMBus driver platform data.
Module parameters
-----------------
delay
-----
The controller requires a minimum interval between I2C bus accesses.
The default interval is set to 100 us. For manual override, the driver
provides a writeable module parameter, 'delay', which can be used to
set the interval to a value between 0 and 65,535 microseconds.
Sysfs entries
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The following attributes are supported. Limits are read-write; all other
attributes are read-only.
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in1_label "vin"
in1_input Measured input voltage.
in1_lcrit Critical minimum input voltage.
in1_crit Critical maximum input voltage.
in1_lcrit_alarm Input voltage critical low alarm.
in1_crit_alarm Input voltage critical high alarm.
in2_label "vout1"
in2_input Measured output voltage.
in2_lcrit Critical minimum output Voltage.
in2_crit Critical maximum output voltage.
in2_lcrit_alarm Critical output voltage critical low alarm.
in2_crit_alarm Critical output voltage critical high alarm.
curr1_label "iout1"
curr1_input Measured output current.
curr1_crit Critical maximum output current.
curr1_crit_alarm Output current critical high alarm.
temp1_input Measured maximum temperature of all phases.
temp1_max Maximum temperature limit.
temp1_max_alarm High temperature alarm.
temp1_crit Critical maximum temperature limit.
temp1_crit_alarm Critical maximum temperature alarm.
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