On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 20:06:20 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > Here comes a patch to sensors-detect. The idea is to limit the I2C > probing to the addresses where we know at least one hardware monitoring > chip, rather than probing the whole 0x03-0x77 address range. Probing > extra addresses has several drawbacks: > * On some machines, probing some addresses results in a bus lockup. > Probing less addresses might help. > * Some users are confused when sensors-detect finds an I2C/SMBus chip > at a given address but fails to identify it. To them, it may sound > like it is an unknown hardware monitoring chips. In 99% of the cases > it isn't though. > * It's a waste of time. > > I also dropped the detection of the "SMBus 2.0 ARP-Capable Device" at > 0x61. If we ever support this, it's not sensors-detect's job. > > In practice, this change basically halves the number of probed I2C > addresses. > > If someone really wants to see all the responsive addresses on an I2C > bus, we have i2cdetect for that. > > Comments anyone? As there were no objections, I applied this patch. -- Jean Delvare
