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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/hwmon/w83627hf | 29 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/hwmon/w83627hf.c | 11 |
2 files changed, 27 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/w83627hf b/Documentation/hwmon/w83627hf index 6ee36dbafd64..44dd2bcc72bd 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/w83627hf +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/w83627hf @@ -32,8 +32,6 @@ Authors: Module Parameters ----------------- -* force_addr: int - Initialize the ISA address of the sensors * force_i2c: int Initialize the I2C address of the sensors * init: int @@ -70,3 +68,30 @@ doesn't help, you may just ignore the bogus VID reading with no harm done. For further information on this driver see the w83781d driver documentation. [1] http://www.lm-sensors.org/browser/lm-sensors/trunk/doc/vid + +Forcing the address +------------------- + +The driver used to have a module parameter named force_addr, which could +be used to force the base I/O address of the hardware monitoring block. +This was meant as a workaround for mainboards with a broken BIOS. This +module parameter is gone for technical reasons. If you need this feature, +you can obtain the same result by using the isaset tool (part of +lm-sensors) before loading the driver: + +# Enter the Super I/O config space +isaset -y -f 0x2e 0x87 +isaset -y -f 0x2e 0x87 + +# Select the hwmon logical device +isaset -y 0x2e 0x2f 0x07 0x0b + +# Set the base I/O address (to 0x290 in this example) +isaset -y 0x2e 0x2f 0x60 0x02 +isaset -y 0x2e 0x2f 0x61 0x90 + +# Exit the Super-I/O config space +isaset -y -f 0x2e 0xaa + +The above sequence assumes a Super-I/O config space at 0x2e/0x2f, but +0x4e/0x4f is also possible. diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/w83627hf.c b/drivers/hwmon/w83627hf.c index 2be28ac4ede0..d67407d045bd 100644 --- a/drivers/hwmon/w83627hf.c +++ b/drivers/hwmon/w83627hf.c @@ -59,10 +59,6 @@ static struct platform_device *pdev; #define DRVNAME "w83627hf" enum chips { w83627hf, w83627thf, w83697hf, w83637hf, w83687thf }; -static u16 force_addr; -module_param(force_addr, ushort, 0); -MODULE_PARM_DESC(force_addr, - "Initialize the base address of the sensors"); static u8 force_i2c = 0x1f; module_param(force_i2c, byte, 0); MODULE_PARM_DESC(force_i2c, @@ -1169,13 +1165,6 @@ static int __init w83627hf_find(int sioaddr, unsigned short *addr, } superio_select(W83627HF_LD_HWM); - force_addr &= WINB_ALIGNMENT; - if (force_addr) { - printk(KERN_WARNING DRVNAME ": Forcing address 0x%x\n", - force_addr); - superio_outb(WINB_BASE_REG, force_addr >> 8); - superio_outb(WINB_BASE_REG + 1, force_addr & 0xff); - } val = (superio_inb(WINB_BASE_REG) << 8) | superio_inb(WINB_BASE_REG + 1); *addr = val & WINB_ALIGNMENT; |
