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| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/thermal/Kconfig | 12 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/thermal/Kconfig b/drivers/thermal/Kconfig index 35c066489a19..7932294e0ff7 100644 --- a/drivers/thermal/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/thermal/Kconfig @@ -210,8 +210,16 @@ config ACPI_INT3403_THERMAL tristate "ACPI INT3403 thermal driver" depends on X86 && ACPI help - This driver uses ACPI INT3403 device objects. If present, it will - register each INT3403 thermal sensor as a thermal zone. + Newer laptops and tablets that use ACPI may have thermal sensors + outside the core CPU/SOC for thermal safety reasons. These + temperature sensors are also exposed for the OS to use via the so + called INT3403 ACPI object. This driver will, on devices that have + such sensors, expose the temperature information from these sensors + to userspace via the normal thermal framework. This means that a wide + range of applications and GUI widgets can show this information to + the user or use this information for making decisions. For example, + the Intel Thermal Daemon can use this information to allow the user + to select his laptop to run without turning on the fans. menu "Texas Instruments thermal drivers" source "drivers/thermal/ti-soc-thermal/Kconfig" |