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Patch "hwmon: (tmp401) Do not auto-detect chip on I2C address 0x37" has been added to the 4.0-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    hwmon: (tmp401) Do not auto-detect chip on I2C address 0x37

to the 4.0-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:

     hwmon-tmp401-do-not-auto-detect-chip-on-i2c-address-0x37.patch

and it can be found in the queue-4.0 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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From 9aecac04d8d89e730ae362a748113b19c06a9d39 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 16:11:48 -0700
Subject: hwmon: (tmp401) Do not auto-detect chip on I2C address 0x37

From: Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>

commit 9aecac04d8d89e730ae362a748113b19c06a9d39 upstream.

I2C address 0x37 may be used by EEPROMs, which can result in false positives. Do not attempt to detect a chip at this address.

---
 Documentation/hwmon/tmp401 |    2 +-
 drivers/hwmon/tmp401.c     |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Documentation/hwmon/tmp401 +1 -1
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Supported chips:
     Datasheet: http://focus.ti.com/docs/prod/folders/print/tmp432.html
   * Texas Instruments TMP435
     Prefix: 'tmp435'
-    Addresses scanned: I2C 0x37, 0x48 - 0x4f
+    Addresses scanned: I2C 0x48 - 0x4f
     Datasheet: http://focus.ti.com/docs/prod/folders/print/tmp435.html
 
 Authors:
drivers/hwmon/tmp401.c +1 -1
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 #include <linux/sysfs.h>
 
 /* Addresses to scan */
-static const unsigned short normal_i2c[] = { 0x37, 0x48, 0x49, 0x4a, 0x4c, 0x4d,
+static const unsigned short normal_i2c[] = { 0x48, 0x49, 0x4a, 0x4c, 0x4d,
 	0x4e, 0x4f, I2C_CLIENT_END };
 
 enum chips { tmp401, tmp411, tmp431, tmp432, tmp435 };

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.0/hwmon-ntc_thermistor-ensure-iio-channel-is-of-type-iio_voltage.patch queue-4.0/hwmon-tmp401-do-not-auto-detect-chip-on-i2c-address-0x37.patch queue-4.0/hwmon-nct6775-add-missing-sysfs-attribute-initialization.patch queue-4.0/hwmon-nct6683-add-missing-sysfs-attribute-initialization.patch