From d91aae1e52e5289a94f4ddff968decfc8d37271e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 22:53:20 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] hwmon: (max16065) Add chip access warning to documentation The chips supported by the max16065 driver should not be accessed using direct i2ctools commands. Add warning to driver documentation to alert users. Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com> Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> --- Documentation/hwmon/max16065 | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/max16065 b/Documentation/hwmon/max16065 index 44b4f61e04f9..c11f64a1f2ad 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/max16065 +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/max16065 @@ -62,6 +62,13 @@ can be safely used to identify the chip. You will have to instantiate the devices explicitly. Please see Documentation/i2c/instantiating-devices for details. +WARNING: Do not access chip registers using the i2cdump command, and do not use +any of the i2ctools commands on a command register (0xa5 to 0xac). The chips +supported by this driver interpret any access to a command register (including +read commands) as request to execute the command in question. This may result in +power loss, board resets, and/or Flash corruption. Worst case, your board may +turn into a brick. + Sysfs entries ------------- -- GitLab