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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/hwmon/it87 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/hwmon/it87.c | 8 |
3 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 4d4897c8ef9..b730d765b52 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -162,3 +162,12 @@ What: pci_module_init(driver) When: January 2007 Why: Is replaced by pci_register_driver(pci_driver). Who: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se> and Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> + +--------------------------- + +What: I2C interface of the it87 driver +When: January 2007 +Why: The ISA interface is faster and should be always available. The I2C + probing is also known to cause trouble in at least one case (see + bug #5889.) +Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/it87 b/Documentation/hwmon/it87 index 7f42e441c64..9555be1ed99 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/it87 +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/it87 @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Supported chips: http://www.ite.com.tw/ * IT8712F Prefix: 'it8712' - Addresses scanned: I2C 0x28 - 0x2f + Addresses scanned: I2C 0x2d from Super I/O config space (8 I/O ports) Datasheet: Publicly available at the ITE website http://www.ite.com.tw/ diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/it87.c b/drivers/hwmon/it87.c index 0da7c9c508c..e87d52c5994 100644 --- a/drivers/hwmon/it87.c +++ b/drivers/hwmon/it87.c @@ -45,8 +45,7 @@ /* Addresses to scan */ -static unsigned short normal_i2c[] = { 0x28, 0x29, 0x2a, 0x2b, 0x2c, 0x2d, - 0x2e, 0x2f, I2C_CLIENT_END }; +static unsigned short normal_i2c[] = { 0x2d, I2C_CLIENT_END }; static unsigned short isa_address; /* Insmod parameters */ @@ -830,6 +829,11 @@ static int it87_detect(struct i2c_adapter *adapter, int address, int kind) if ((err = i2c_attach_client(new_client))) goto ERROR2; + if (!is_isa) + dev_info(&new_client->dev, "The I2C interface to IT87xxF " + "hardware monitoring chips is deprecated. Please " + "report if you still rely on it.\n"); + /* Check PWM configuration */ enable_pwm_interface = it87_check_pwm(new_client); |