This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled hwmon: (lm90) Mark alert as broken for MAX6646/6647/6649 to the 5.16-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: hwmon-lm90-mark-alert-as-broken-for-max6646-6647-664.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.16 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit fddfe032896e343975c64544df1f28386c1fa424 Author: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Jan 7 12:36:41 2022 -0800 hwmon: (lm90) Mark alert as broken for MAX6646/6647/6649 [ Upstream commit f614629f9c1080dcc844a8430e3fb4c37ebbf05d ] Experiments with MAX6646 and MAX6648 show that the alert function of those chips is broken, similar to other chips supported by the lm90 driver. Mark it accordingly. Fixes: 4667bcb8d8fc ("hwmon: (lm90) Introduce chip parameter structure") Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/lm90.c b/drivers/hwmon/lm90.c index 06cb971c889b4..ba01127c1deb1 100644 --- a/drivers/hwmon/lm90.c +++ b/drivers/hwmon/lm90.c @@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ static const struct lm90_params lm90_params[] = { .max_convrate = 9, }, [max6646] = { - .flags = LM90_HAVE_CRIT, + .flags = LM90_HAVE_CRIT | LM90_HAVE_BROKEN_ALERT, .alert_alarms = 0x7c, .max_convrate = 6, .reg_local_ext = MAX6657_REG_R_LOCAL_TEMPL,