hwmon: Document which I2C addresses can be probed
Add an item to the checklist when submitting a new hwmon driver: only some I2C addresses can be probed, others should not for safety reasons. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
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@ -81,6 +81,13 @@ increase the chances of your change being accepted.
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* Provide a detect function if and only if a chip can be detected reliably.
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* Only the following I2C addresses shall be probed: 0x18-0x1f, 0x28-0x2f,
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0x48-0x4f, 0x58, 0x5c, 0x73 and 0x77. Probing other addresses is strongly
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discouraged as it is known to cause trouble with other (non-hwmon) I2C
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chips. If your chip lives at an address which can't be probed then the
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device will have to be instantiated explicitly (which is always better
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anyway.)
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* Avoid writing to chip registers in the detect function. If you have to write,
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only do it after you have already gathered enough data to be certain that the
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detection is going to be successful.
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