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diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro
index 702f5ac68c0..16775663b9f 100644
--- a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro
+++ b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro
@@ -4,17 +4,16 @@ Supported adapters:
* VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596A/B
Datasheet: Sometimes available at the VIA website
- * VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686A/B
+ * VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686A/B
Datasheet: Sometimes available at the VIA website
- * VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8231, VT8233, VT8233A, VT8235, VT8237
- Datasheet: available on request from Via
+ * VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8231, VT8233, VT8233A, VT8235, VT8237R
+ Datasheet: available on request from VIA
Authors:
- Frodo Looijaard <frodol@dds.nl>,
- Philip Edelbrock <phil@netroedge.com>,
- Kyösti Mälkki <kmalkki@cc.hut.fi>,
- Mark D. Studebaker <mdsxyz123@yahoo.com>
+ Kyösti Mälkki <kmalkki@cc.hut.fi>,
+ Mark D. Studebaker <mdsxyz123@yahoo.com>,
+ Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Module Parameters
-----------------
@@ -28,20 +27,22 @@ Description
-----------
i2c-viapro is a true SMBus host driver for motherboards with one of the
-supported VIA southbridges.
+supported VIA south bridges.
Your lspci -n listing must show one of these :
- device 1106:3050 (VT82C596 function 3)
- device 1106:3051 (VT82C596 function 3)
+ device 1106:3050 (VT82C596A function 3)
+ device 1106:3051 (VT82C596B function 3)
device 1106:3057 (VT82C686 function 4)
device 1106:3074 (VT8233)
device 1106:3147 (VT8233A)
- device 1106:8235 (VT8231)
- devide 1106:3177 (VT8235)
- devide 1106:3227 (VT8237)
+ device 1106:8235 (VT8231 function 4)
+ device 1106:3177 (VT8235)
+ device 1106:3227 (VT8237R)
If none of these show up, you should look in the BIOS for settings like
enable ACPI / SMBus or even USB.
-
+Except for the oldest chips (VT82C596A/B, VT82C686A and most probably
+VT8231), this driver supports I2C block transactions. Such transactions
+are mainly useful to read from and write to EEPROMs.