From 2d2e148a237f790a19e2faa6d8387cf254010358 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 15:19:35 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] hwmon: Add tachometer pulses per fan revolution to sysfs ABI

Some fan control chips support a configuration register to set the number of
tachometer pulses per fan revolution. Add an ABI attribute to support this
configuration register.

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
---
 Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface b/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface
index c6559f153589..83a698773ade 100644
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface
@@ -187,6 +187,17 @@ fan[1-*]_div	Fan divisor.
 		Note that this is actually an internal clock divisor, which
 		affects the measurable speed range, not the read value.
 
+fan[1-*]_pulses	Number of tachometer pulses per fan revolution.
+		Integer value, typically between 1 and 4.
+		RW
+		This value is a characteristic of the fan connected to the
+		device's input, so it has to be set in accordance with the fan
+		model.
+		Should only be created if the chip has a register to configure
+		the number of pulses. In the absence of such a register (and
+		thus attribute) the value assumed by all devices is 2 pulses
+		per fan revolution.
+
 fan[1-*]_target
 		Desired fan speed
 		Unit: revolution/min (RPM)
-- 
GitLab