hwmon: (drivetemp) Add usage not describing impact on drive spin-down
authorGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Sun, 9 Aug 2020 01:07:10 +0000 (18:07 -0700)
committerGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Wed, 23 Sep 2020 16:42:39 +0000 (09:42 -0700)
commite40358390928f9ab9d8d7dde5c60c08981dc1d81
tree02d868700b3a2bcac73edea09b05e50d07474fda
parent787c095edaa9de28d39671282eba7bddd479c038
hwmon: (drivetemp) Add usage not describing impact on drive spin-down

On some drives, reading the drive temperature resets the drive's
spin-down timer. If the drive temperature is read too often, affected
drives will never spin down. Add this information as usage note to
the driver documentation.

Reported-by: Peter Sulyok <peter@sulyok.net>
Cc: Peter Sulyok <peter@sulyok.net>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Documentation/hwmon/drivetemp.rst