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diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/lm75 b/Documentation/hwmon/lm75 index 69af1c7db6b..5e45d079598 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/lm75 +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/lm75 @@ -67,7 +67,8 @@ the temperature falls below the Hysteresis value. All temperatures are in degrees Celsius, and are guaranteed within a range of -55 to +125 degrees. -The LM75 only updates its values each 1.5 seconds; reading it more often +The driver caches the values for a period varying between 1 second for the +slowest chips and 125 ms for the fastest chips; reading it more often will do no harm, but will return 'old' values. The original LM75 was typically used in combination with LM78-like chips @@ -78,8 +79,8 @@ The LM75 is essentially an industry standard; there may be other LM75 clones not listed here, with or without various enhancements, that are supported. The clones are not detected by the driver, unless they reproduce the exact register tricks of the original LM75, and must -therefore be instantiated explicitly. The specific enhancements (such as -higher resolution) are not currently supported by the driver. +therefore be instantiated explicitly. Higher resolution up to 12-bit +is supported by this driver, other specific enhancements are not. The LM77 is not supported, contrary to what we pretended for a long time. Both chips are simply not compatible, value encoding differs. |