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@@ -67,7 +67,8 @@ the temperature falls below the Hysteresis value.
67All temperatures are in degrees Celsius, and are guaranteed within a 67All temperatures are in degrees Celsius, and are guaranteed within a
68range of -55 to +125 degrees. 68range of -55 to +125 degrees.
69 69
70The LM75 only updates its values each 1.5 seconds; reading it more often 70The driver caches the values for a period varying between 1 second for the
71slowest chips and 125 ms for the fastest chips; reading it more often
71will do no harm, but will return 'old' values. 72will do no harm, but will return 'old' values.
72 73
73The original LM75 was typically used in combination with LM78-like chips 74The 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
78LM75 clones not listed here, with or without various enhancements, 79LM75 clones not listed here, with or without various enhancements,
79that are supported. The clones are not detected by the driver, unless 80that are supported. The clones are not detected by the driver, unless
80they reproduce the exact register tricks of the original LM75, and must 81they reproduce the exact register tricks of the original LM75, and must
81therefore be instantiated explicitly. The specific enhancements (such as 82therefore be instantiated explicitly. Higher resolution up to 12-bit
82higher resolution) are not currently supported by the driver. 83is supported by this driver, other specific enhancements are not.
83 84
84The LM77 is not supported, contrary to what we pretended for a long time. 85The LM77 is not supported, contrary to what we pretended for a long time.
85Both chips are simply not compatible, value encoding differs. 86Both chips are simply not compatible, value encoding differs.