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* hwmon: Document which I2C addresses can be probedJean Delvare2015-07-031-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | Add an item to the checklist when submitting a new hwmon driver: only some I2C addresses can be probed, others should not for safety reasons. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
* doc: Fix typo "is is" in DocumentationsMasanari Iida2013-08-271-1/+1
| | | | | | | | Fix double words "is is" in Documentations. Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* Finally eradicate CONFIG_HOTPLUGStephen Rothwell2013-06-031-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ever since commit 45f035ab9b8f ("CONFIG_HOTPLUG should be always on"), it has been basically impossible to build a kernel with CONFIG_HOTPLUG turned off. Remove all the remaining references to it. Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* Documentation/hwmon: remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTALKees Cook2012-10-151-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | This config item has not carried much meaning for a while now and is almost always enabled by default. As agreed during the Linux kernel summit, remove it. CC: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> CC: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> CC: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
* hwmon: Document the use of devres functionsGuenter Roeck2012-07-221-0/+3
| | | | | | | | devres functions are the preferred means to allocate resources in hwmon drivers. Document it. Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
* hwmon: Add submitting-patches checklist to documentationGuenter Roeck2011-04-191-0/+109
When writing hardware monitoring drivers, there are some common pitfalls which keep coming up in code reviews. This patch provides a document describing all those pitfalls and how to avoid them. Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com> Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>