On Fri, 29 May 2015 07:46:39 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > Hi Jean, > > On 05/29/2015 01:43 AM, Jean Delvare wrote: > > Add an item to the checklist when submitting a new hwmon driver: only > > some I2C addresses can be probed, others should not for safety > > reasons. > > > > Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx> > > Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > Documentation/hwmon/submitting-patches | 7 +++++++ > > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) > > > > --- linux-4.1-rc5.orig/Documentation/hwmon/submitting-patches 2015-04-27 02:59:10.000000000 +0200 > > +++ linux-4.1-rc5/Documentation/hwmon/submitting-patches 2015-05-29 10:40:49.118900331 +0200 > > @@ -81,6 +81,13 @@ increase the chances of your change bein > > > > * Provide a detect function if and only if a chip can be detected reliably. > > > > +* Only the following I2C addresses shall be probed: 0x18-0x1f, 0x28-0x2f, > > + 0x48-0x4f, 0x58, 0x5c, 0x73 and 0x77. Probing other addresses is strongly > > + discouraged as it is known to cause trouble with other (non-hwmon) I2C > > + chips. If your chip can live at an address which can't be probed then the > > lives ? After all, the chip can still be probed on its other addresses, > like the tmp435. Fixed, thanks for the review. -- Jean Delvare SUSE L3 Support _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
