Instead of re-reading the alarm register after reporting an alarm, mark cached values as invalid. While this results in always reading all data on subsequent reads, it is quite unlikely that such reads will actually happen before the cache times out. The upside is avoiding unnecessary unconditional i2c read operations. Cc: Jean-Francois Dagenais <jeff.dagenais@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- v2: No change drivers/hwmon/max6650.c | 9 +++------ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/max6650.c b/drivers/hwmon/max6650.c index 2edee4ca5cae..045e67f73846 100644 --- a/drivers/hwmon/max6650.c +++ b/drivers/hwmon/max6650.c @@ -512,15 +512,12 @@ static ssize_t alarm_show(struct device *dev, { struct sensor_device_attribute *attr = to_sensor_dev_attr(devattr); struct max6650_data *data = max6650_update_device(dev); - struct i2c_client *client = data->client; - int alarm = 0; + bool alarm = data->alarm & attr->index; - if (data->alarm & attr->index) { + if (alarm) { mutex_lock(&data->update_lock); - alarm = 1; data->alarm &= ~attr->index; - data->alarm |= i2c_smbus_read_byte_data(client, - MAX6650_REG_ALARM); + data->valid = false; mutex_unlock(&data->update_lock); } -- 2.7.4