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[src/trunk]: src/share/man/man4 Clarify caveats.



details:   https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/ece47b7e0c59
branches:  trunk
changeset: 323741:ece47b7e0c59
user:      rkujawa <rkujawa%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date:      Thu Jun 28 13:18:19 2018 +0000

description:
Clarify caveats.

diffstat:

 share/man/man4/tps65217pmic.4 |  16 ++++++++++++----
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diffs (39 lines):

diff -r 47bad925b7c3 -r ece47b7e0c59 share/man/man4/tps65217pmic.4
--- a/share/man/man4/tps65217pmic.4     Thu Jun 28 10:14:01 2018 +0000
+++ b/share/man/man4/tps65217pmic.4     Thu Jun 28 13:18:19 2018 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: tps65217pmic.4,v 1.8 2016/10/16 05:25:52 wiz Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: tps65217pmic.4,v 1.9 2018/06/28 13:18:19 rkujawa Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2013 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
 .\" All rights reserved.
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 .\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
 .\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.Dd April 29, 2013
+.Dd June 28, 2018
 .Dt TPS65217PMIC 4
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -81,10 +81,18 @@
 .Sh CAVEATS
 The driver can only report current voltage regulator settings.
 It can not measure the real voltage, as the TPS65217 chip lacks hardware to do
-that.
+that. Some boards allow voltage measurement by connecting the power output to
+external sensor, or analog input of the MPU, but this is outside of the
+scope of this driver.
 .Pp
 Modifying voltage regulator parameters from user space was deliberately left
-unimplemented, as these parameters should only be set at the firmware level.
+unimplemented, as these parameters should only be set at the firmware or
+kernel level.
 Setting wrong parameters may result in permanent hardware damage.
+.Pp
+The
+.Nm
+driver offers a function that can be used to change the voltage from other
+kernel components (currently used by AM335x support code).
 .Sh BUGS
 Battery and interrupt support is not implemented.



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