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diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/pcf8591 b/Documentation/hwmon/pcf8591 index 5628fcf4207..e76a7892f68 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/pcf8591 +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/pcf8591 @@ -2,11 +2,11 @@ Kernel driver pcf8591 ===================== Supported chips: - * Philips PCF8591 + * Philips/NXP PCF8591 Prefix: 'pcf8591' Addresses scanned: I2C 0x48 - 0x4f - Datasheet: Publicly available at the Philips Semiconductor website - http://www.semiconductors.philips.com/pip/PCF8591P.html + Datasheet: Publicly available at the NXP website + http://www.nxp.com/pip/PCF8591_6.html Authors: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> @@ -16,9 +16,10 @@ Authors: Description ----------- + The PCF8591 is an 8-bit A/D and D/A converter (4 analog inputs and one -analog output) for the I2C bus produced by Philips Semiconductors. It -is designed to provide a byte I2C interface to up to 4 separate devices. +analog output) for the I2C bus produced by Philips Semiconductors (now NXP). +It is designed to provide a byte I2C interface to up to 4 separate devices. The PCF8591 has 4 analog inputs programmable as single-ended or differential inputs : @@ -58,8 +59,8 @@ Accessing PCF8591 via /sys interface ------------------------------------- ! Be careful ! -The PCF8591 is plainly impossible to detect ! Stupid chip. -So every chip with address in the interval [48..4f] is +The PCF8591 is plainly impossible to detect! Stupid chip. +So every chip with address in the interval [0x48..0x4f] is detected as PCF8591. If you have other chips in this address range, the workaround is to load this module after the one for your others chips. @@ -67,19 +68,20 @@ for your others chips. On detection (i.e. insmod, modprobe et al.), directories are being created for each detected PCF8591: -/sys/bus/devices/<0>-<1>/ +/sys/bus/i2c/devices/<0>-<1>/ where <0> is the bus the chip was detected on (e. g. i2c-0) and <1> the chip address ([48..4f]) Inside these directories, there are such files: -in0, in1, in2, in3, out0_enable, out0_output, name +in0_input, in1_input, in2_input, in3_input, out0_enable, out0_output, name Name contains chip name. -The in0, in1, in2 and in3 files are RO. Reading gives the value of the -corresponding channel. Depending on the current analog inputs configuration, -files in2 and/or in3 do not exist. Values range are from 0 to 255 for single |