help Generic Thermal Sysfs driver offers a generic mechanism for thermal management. Usually it's made up of one or more thermal zone and cooling device.
config THERMAL_HWMON bool "Hardware monitoring support" depends on HWMON=y || HWMON=THERMAL help The generic thermal sysfs driver's hardware monitoring support requires a 2.10.7/3.0.2 or later lm-sensors userspace. Say Y if your user-space is new enough.