This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled hwmon: (lm90) Mark alert as broken for MAX6680 to the 5.4-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-max6680.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 9f450cab2cf88735aef7b8b4bcba133e2724604d Author: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Jan 7 11:11:00 2022 -0800 hwmon: (lm90) Mark alert as broken for MAX6680 [ Upstream commit 94746b0ba479743355e0d3cc1cb9cfe3011fb8be ] Experiments with MAX6680 and MAX6681 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 28b408728282d..53364e8d1dbff 100644 --- a/drivers/hwmon/lm90.c +++ b/drivers/hwmon/lm90.c @@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ static const struct lm90_params lm90_params[] = { }, [max6680] = { .flags = LM90_HAVE_OFFSET | LM90_HAVE_CRIT - | LM90_HAVE_CRIT_ALRM_SWP, + | LM90_HAVE_CRIT_ALRM_SWP | LM90_HAVE_BROKEN_ALERT, .alert_alarms = 0x7c, .max_convrate = 7, },