ADT(4)

💅 ADT(4) — girl help, it's a sensor driver

okay so real quick, this whole page lives in the Kernel Interfaces Manual section of your local man pages, and it's literally just here to tell you about adt — the Analog Devices ADT7460 temperature, voltage, and fan sensor. yes bestie, one driver, so many chips, let's get into it 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

adt — Analog Devices ADT7460 temperature, voltage, and fan sensor

like, it senses temperature, voltage and fan stuff. triple threat. main character energy fr 🔥

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

adt* at iic?

that's it. that's the whole vibe. it attaches at iic? and off it goes ✨

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the adt driver is out here providing support for a whole friend group of sensors, no cap:

• Analog Devices ADT7460
• Analog Devices ADT7465
• Analog Devices ADT7475
• Analog Devices ADT7476
• Analog Devices ADT7477
• Analog Devices ADM1027
• National Semiconductor LM85
• National Semiconductor LM96000
• SMSC EMC6D10x
• SMSC SCH5017
• SMC SCH5027

all of them temperature sensors, all of them iconic 💖

and the sensor itself literally possesses a collection of sensor values — which are made available through the sysctl(8) interface. so yeah, that's where you go to peek at them. iykyk 🫶

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• iic(4)
• intro(4)
• sensorsd(8)
• sysctl(8)

go read those too, bestie, they're the supporting cast 🌈

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👑 HISTORY 👑

the adt driver first appeared in OpenBSD 3.9. vintage. lowkey a classic 🎀

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⭐ AUTHORS ⭐

the adt driver was written by Theo de Raadt <deraadt@openbsd.org> — shoutout, king 👑

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ngl there's nothing dangerous on this page, it's just a chill little sensor driver. go forth and sysctl responsibly 💅

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and that's the tea 🍓 this page came from the Debian build of the man pages, dated July 16, 2013, and it's filed as ADT(4) — periodt, end of page, love you, bye 💖✨