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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/hwmon/lm75 | 7 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/lm75 b/Documentation/hwmon/lm75 index 69af1c7db6b7..5e45d0795986 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/lm75 +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/lm75 | |||
@@ -67,7 +67,8 @@ the temperature falls below the Hysteresis value. | |||
67 | All temperatures are in degrees Celsius, and are guaranteed within a | 67 | All temperatures are in degrees Celsius, and are guaranteed within a |
68 | range of -55 to +125 degrees. | 68 | range of -55 to +125 degrees. |
69 | 69 | ||
70 | The LM75 only updates its values each 1.5 seconds; reading it more often | 70 | The driver caches the values for a period varying between 1 second for the |
71 | slowest chips and 125 ms for the fastest chips; reading it more often | ||
71 | will do no harm, but will return 'old' values. | 72 | will do no harm, but will return 'old' values. |
72 | 73 | ||
73 | The original LM75 was typically used in combination with LM78-like chips | 74 | 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 | |||
78 | LM75 clones not listed here, with or without various enhancements, | 79 | LM75 clones not listed here, with or without various enhancements, |
79 | that are supported. The clones are not detected by the driver, unless | 80 | that are supported. The clones are not detected by the driver, unless |
80 | they reproduce the exact register tricks of the original LM75, and must | 81 | they reproduce the exact register tricks of the original LM75, and must |
81 | therefore be instantiated explicitly. The specific enhancements (such as | 82 | therefore be instantiated explicitly. Higher resolution up to 12-bit |
82 | higher resolution) are not currently supported by the driver. | 83 | is supported by this driver, other specific enhancements are not. |
83 | 84 | ||
84 | The LM77 is not supported, contrary to what we pretended for a long time. | 85 | The LM77 is not supported, contrary to what we pretended for a long time. |
85 | Both chips are simply not compatible, value encoding differs. | 86 | Both chips are simply not compatible, value encoding differs. |