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hwmon: (max16065) Add chip access warning to documentation 

The chips supported by the max16065 driver should not be accessed using direct
i2ctools commands. Add warning to driver documentation to alert users.

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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Guenter Roeck 2011-08-29 22:53:20 -07:00
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@ -62,6 +62,13 @@ can be safely used to identify the chip. You will have to instantiate
the devices explicitly. Please see Documentation/i2c/instantiating-devices for
details.
WARNING: Do not access chip registers using the i2cdump command, and do not use
any of the i2ctools commands on a command register (0xa5 to 0xac). The chips
supported by this driver interpret any access to a command register (including
read commands) as request to execute the command in question. This may result in
power loss, board resets, and/or Flash corruption. Worst case, your board may
turn into a brick.
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