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| @@ -62,6 +62,13 @@ can be safely used to identify the chip. You will have to instantiate | |||
| 62 | the devices explicitly. Please see Documentation/i2c/instantiating-devices for | 62 | the devices explicitly. Please see Documentation/i2c/instantiating-devices for |
| 63 | details. | 63 | details. |
| 64 | 64 | ||
| 65 | WARNING: Do not access chip registers using the i2cdump command, and do not use | ||
| 66 | any of the i2ctools commands on a command register (0xa5 to 0xac). The chips | ||
| 67 | supported by this driver interpret any access to a command register (including | ||
| 68 | read commands) as request to execute the command in question. This may result in | ||
| 69 | power loss, board resets, and/or Flash corruption. Worst case, your board may | ||
| 70 | turn into a brick. | ||
| 71 | |||
| 65 | 72 | ||
| 66 | Sysfs entries | 73 | Sysfs entries |
| 67 | ------------- | 74 | ------------- |