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| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/hwmon/lm83.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/lm83.c b/drivers/hwmon/lm83.c index 82d7ef264f6f..d9ee01ca8aed 100644 --- a/drivers/hwmon/lm83.c +++ b/drivers/hwmon/lm83.c @@ -334,6 +334,14 @@ static int lm83_detect(struct i2c_client *client, chip_id = i2c_smbus_read_byte_data(client, LM83_REG_R_CHIP_ID); switch (chip_id) { case 0x03: + /* + * According to the LM82 datasheet dated March 2013, recent + * revisions of LM82 have a die revision of 0x03. This was + * confirmed with a real chip. Further details in this revision + * of the LM82 datasheet strongly suggest that LM82 is just a + * repackaged LM83. It is therefore impossible to distinguish + * those chips from LM83, and they will be misdetected as LM83. + */ name = "lm83"; break; case 0x01: |