The low bits of temperature registers are status bits, they must be masked out before converting the register values to temperatures. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andre Prendel <andre.prendel@xxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx --- drivers/hwmon/tmp421.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.34-rc0.orig/drivers/hwmon/tmp421.c 2010-03-04 14:05:09.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.34-rc0/drivers/hwmon/tmp421.c 2010-03-04 14:13:27.000000000 +0100 @@ -80,14 +80,16 @@ struct tmp421_data { static int temp_from_s16(s16 reg) { - int temp = reg; + /* Mask out status bits */ + int temp = reg & ~0xf; return (temp * 1000 + 128) / 256; } static int temp_from_u16(u16 reg) { - int temp = reg; + /* Mask out status bits */ + int temp = reg & ~0xf; /* Add offset for extended temperature range. */ temp -= 64 * 256; -- Jean Delvare _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors