diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/qcom-tsens.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/qcom-tsens.txt
index 292ed89d900b..06195e8f35e2 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/qcom-tsens.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/qcom-tsens.txt
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Required properties:
 
 - reg: Address range of the thermal registers
 - #thermal-sensor-cells : Should be 1. See ./thermal.txt for a description.
+- #qcom,sensors: Number of sensors in tsens block
 - Refer to Documentation/devicetree/bindings/nvmem/nvmem.txt to know how to specify
 nvmem cells
 
diff --git a/drivers/thermal/qcom/tsens.c b/drivers/thermal/qcom/tsens.c
index 3f9fe6aa51cc..20f3b87d7667 100644
--- a/drivers/thermal/qcom/tsens.c
+++ b/drivers/thermal/qcom/tsens.c
@@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ static int tsens_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	struct tsens_device *tmdev;
 	const struct tsens_data *data;
 	const struct of_device_id *id;
+	u32 num_sensors;
 
 	if (pdev->dev.of_node)
 		dev = &pdev->dev;
@@ -130,18 +131,23 @@ static int tsens_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	else
 		data = &data_8960;
 
-	if (data->num_sensors <= 0) {
+	num_sensors = data->num_sensors;
+
+	if (np)
+		of_property_read_u32(np, "#qcom,sensors", &num_sensors);
+
+	if (num_sensors <= 0) {
 		dev_err(dev, "invalid number of sensors\n");
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
 	tmdev = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*tmdev) +
-			     data->num_sensors * sizeof(*s), GFP_KERNEL);
+			     num_sensors * sizeof(*s), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!tmdev)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	tmdev->dev = dev;
-	tmdev->num_sensors = data->num_sensors;
+	tmdev->num_sensors = num_sensors;
 	tmdev->ops = data->ops;
 	for (i = 0;  i < tmdev->num_sensors; i++) {
 		if (data->hw_ids)