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[PATCH] HWMON: Improve the help text for CONFIG_HWMON

Improve the help text for CONFIG_HWMON to let the users know how they
pick the right hardware monitoring driver(s) for their system.

Also fix a couple typos in the related documentation file and improve
some parts a bit.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

authored by

Jean Delvare and committed by
Greg Kroah-Hartman
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Documentation/hwmon/userspace-tools
··· 6 6 are also connected directly through the ISA bus. 7 7 8 8 The kernel drivers make the data from the sensor chips available in the /sys 9 - virtual filesystem. Userspace tools are then used to display or set or the 10 - data in a more friendly manner. 9 + virtual filesystem. Userspace tools are then used to display the measured 10 + values or configure the chips in a more friendly manner. 11 11 12 12 Lm-sensors 13 13 ---------- 14 14 15 - Core set of utilites that will allow you to obtain health information, 15 + Core set of utilities that will allow you to obtain health information, 16 16 setup monitoring limits etc. You can get them on their homepage 17 17 http://www.lm-sensors.nu/ or as a package from your Linux distribution. 18 18 19 19 If from website: 20 - Get lmsensors from project web site. Please note, you need only userspace 21 - part, so compile with "make user_install" target. 20 + Get lm-sensors from project web site. Please note, you need only userspace 21 + part, so compile with "make user" and install with "make user_install". 22 22 23 23 General hints to get things working: 24 24 25 25 0) get lm-sensors userspace utils 26 - 1) compile all drivers in I2C section as modules in your kernel 26 + 1) compile all drivers in I2C and Hardware Monitoring sections as modules 27 + in your kernel 27 28 2) run sensors-detect script, it will tell you what modules you need to load. 28 29 3) load them and run "sensors" command, you should see some results. 29 30 4) fix sensors.conf, labels, limits, fan divisors 30 31 5) if any more problems consult FAQ, or documentation 31 32 32 - Other utilites 33 - -------------- 33 + Other utilities 34 + --------------- 34 35 35 36 If you want some graphical indicators of system health look for applications 36 37 like: gkrellm, ksensors, xsensors, wmtemp, wmsensors, wmgtemp, ksysguardd,
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drivers/hwmon/Kconfig
··· 16 16 should say Y here and also to the specific driver(s) for your 17 17 sensors chip(s) below. 18 18 19 + To find out which specific driver(s) you need, use the 20 + sensors-detect script from the lm_sensors package. Read 21 + <file:Documentation/hwmon/userspace-tools> for details. 22 + 19 23 This support can also be built as a module. If so, the module 20 24 will be called hwmon. 21 25