Adding critical/fault limits to hwmon sysfs API
From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Sun Jun 20 2010 - 12:38:39 EST
Hi,
the current hwmon sysfs API does not specify critical or fault limits for voltage
and current readings.
Many recent power controller/monitoring chips have support for such limits in addition
to alarm limits. Typical action, when a the critical or fault limit is reached,
may be a board reset or power shutdown, or to report the fault condition.
Examples for chips supporting critical/fault limits are SMM665 and variants as well
as many PMBus devices, such as MAX8688, MAX16064, LTC2978, and others.
I think it would make sense to add critical/fault limits to the hwmon sysfs API,
to be able to report those limits if supported by a chip.
Any thoughts on this ?
Thanks,
Guenter
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