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| author | Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> | 2006-12-12 18:18:28 +0100 |
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| committer | Jean Delvare <khali@arrakis.delvare> | 2006-12-12 18:18:28 +0100 |
| commit | 8e9afcbbdef71aeeb510732f4f8d5ac3de863df0 (patch) | |
| tree | 10659fa4f1bb76d10b0f4c33b13700ec80a093fd /Documentation | |
| parent | 0f23e50aa5fc578e1c50e873858e6ab7a1e32f0e (diff) | |
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hwmon/it87: Remove the SMBus interface support
This interface was useless as the LPC ISA-like interface is always
available, is faster, and is more reliable. This cuts the driver
size by some 20%.
This change is also required to later convert the it87 driver to a
platform driver, so that we can get rid of i2c-isa in a near future.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/hwmon/it87 | 15 |
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 46f2a559b27c..e82c15de7d27 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -151,15 +151,6 @@ Who: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.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> - ---------------------------- - What: Unused EXPORT_SYMBOL/EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL exports (temporary transition config option provided until then) The transition config option will also be removed at the same time. diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/it87 b/Documentation/hwmon/it87 index e783fd62e308..74a80992d237 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/it87 +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/it87 @@ -9,8 +9,7 @@ Supported chips: http://www.ite.com.tw/ * IT8712F Prefix: 'it8712' - Addresses scanned: I2C 0x2d - from Super I/O config space (8 I/O ports) + Addresses scanned: from Super I/O config space (8 I/O ports) Datasheet: Publicly available at the ITE website http://www.ite.com.tw/ * IT8716F @@ -53,6 +52,18 @@ Module Parameters misconfigured by BIOS - PWM values would be inverted. This option tries to fix this. Please contact your BIOS manufacturer and ask him for fix. + +Hardware Interfaces +------------------- + +All the chips suported by this driver are LPC Super-I/O chips, accessed +through the LPC bus (ISA-like I/O ports). The IT8712F additionally has an +SMBus interface to the hardware monitoring functions. This driver no +longer supports this interface though, as it is slower and less reliable +than the ISA access, and was only available on a small number of +motherboard models. + + Description ----------- |
