Agreed.
Thank you Jean. Since the ds1621 detection is being dropped, is the doc/chips/SUMMARY ds1621 reference necessary? If not, then please also remove it too.
thanks,
Rob.
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 6:26 AM, Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 02:15:25PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:Good idea.
> Detection of the Dallas/Maxim DS1621, DS1625 and DS1631 chips is weak
> and likely to result in false positives. There's no rationale for
> keeping it in sensors-detect as these chips are not found in desktop
> computer systems. So drop detection of these chips altogether.
> ---
Guenter
> prog/detect/sensors-detect | 46 ---------------------------------------------
> 1 file changed, 46 deletions(-)
>
> --- lm-sensors.orig/prog/detect/sensors-detect 2013-05-20 13:25:33.992641174 +0200
> +++ lm-sensors/prog/detect/sensors-detect 2013-05-20 14:11:21.668063379 +0200
> @@ -803,11 +803,6 @@ use vars qw(@i2c_adapter_names);
> i2c_addrs => [0x2c..0x2f],
> i2c_detect => sub { adm9240_detect(@_, 0); },
> }, {
> - name => "Dallas Semiconductor DS1621/DS1631",
> - driver => "ds1621",
> - i2c_addrs => [0x48..0x4f],
> - i2c_detect => sub { ds1621_detect(@_); },
> - }, {
> name => "Dallas Semiconductor DS1780",
> driver => "adm9240",
> i2c_addrs => [0x2c..0x2f],
> @@ -4357,47 +4352,6 @@ sub lm92_detect
> return ($chip == 0) ? 4 : 2;
> }
>
> -# Registers used:
> -# 0xAA: Temperature
> -# 0xA1: High limit
> -# 0xA2: Low limit
> -# 0xA8: Counter
> -# 0xA9: Slope
> -# 0xAC: Configuration
> -# Detection is weak. We check if bit 4 (NVB) is clear, because it is
> -# unlikely to be set (would mean that EEPROM is currently being accessed).
> -# We also check the value of the counter and slope registers, the datasheet
> -# doesn't mention the possible values but the conversion formula together
> -# with experimental evidence suggest possible sanity checks.
> -# Not all devices enjoy SMBus read word transactions, so we do as much as
> -# possible with read byte transactions first, and only use read word
> -# transactions second.
> -sub ds1621_detect
> -{
> - my ($file, $addr) = @_;
> -
> - my $conf = i2c_smbus_read_byte_data($file, 0xAC);
> - return if ($conf & 0x10);
> -
> - my $temp = i2c_smbus_read_word_data($file, 0xAA);
> - return if $temp < 0 || ($temp & 0x0f00);
> - # On the DS1631, the following two checks are too strict in theory,
> - # but in practice I very much doubt that anyone will set temperature
> - # limits not a multiple of 0.5 degrees C.
> - my $high = i2c_smbus_read_word_data($file, 0xA1);
> - return if $high < 0 || ($high & 0x7f00);
> - my $low = i2c_smbus_read_word_data($file, 0xA2);
> - return if $low < 0 || ($low & 0x7f00);
> -
> - return if ($temp == 0 && $high == 0 && $low == 0 && $conf == 0);
> -
> - # Old versions of the DS1621 apparently don't have the counter and
> - # slope registers (or they return crap)
> - my $counter = i2c_smbus_read_byte_data($file, 0xA8);
> - my $slope = i2c_smbus_read_byte_data($file, 0xA9);
> - return ($slope == 0x10 && $counter <= $slope) ? 3 : 2;
> -}
> -
> # Chip to detect: 0 = LM80, 1 = LM96080
> # Registers used:
> # 0x00: Configuration register
>
>
> --
> Jean Delvare
>
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