[lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: (w83627hf) don't assume bank 0
Mark M. Hoffman
mhoffman at lightlink.com
Sun Oct 14 02:53:12 CEST 2007
Hi:
* Jean Delvare <khali at linux-fr.org> [2007-10-10 16:30:23 +0200]:
> The bank switching code assumes that the bank selector is set to 0
> when the driver is loaded. This might not be the case. This is exactly
> the same bug as was fixed in the w83627ehf driver two months ago:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0956895aa6f8dc6a33210967252fd7787652537d
>
> In practice, this bug was causing the sensor thermal types to be
> improperly reported for my W83627THF the first time I was loading the
> w83627hf driver. From the driver history, I'd say that it has been
> broken since September 2005 (when we stopped resetting the chip by
> default at driver load.)
>
> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali at linux-fr.org>
> ---
> drivers/hwmon/w83627hf.c | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
> 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
Applied to hwmon-2.6.git/testing, thanks.
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Mark M. Hoffman
mhoffman at lightlink.com
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