From 9839d59d7faae2e6255ab20de0544d2d9295a02c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frodo Looijaard Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 20:34:27 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Expanded the README a little bit. git-svn-id: http://lm-sensors.org/svn/lm-sensors/trunk@1044 7894878c-1315-0410-8ee3-d5d059ff63e0 --- README.thinkpad | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.thinkpad b/README.thinkpad index 74665e2e..9283225a 100644 --- a/README.thinkpad +++ b/README.thinkpad @@ -8,9 +8,18 @@ causes the Thinkpad to corrupt it's eeprom. Unless you know otherwise, we suggest that users avoid installing I2C/Lm_sensors support on IBM Thinkpads until it becomes known what exactly is causing the corruption. +Though you may disagree about whose fault this is, fact is that seemingly +the Thinkpad can become corrupted even when only reading information from +the i2c/SMBus. Be assured that we never, ever write any information to +the bus while scanning(*), and that no halfway sane client implementation +should change its internal state, not to mention overwrite system-critical +information. + For more information, see: http://www.linux-thinkpad.org/ +(*) Actually, we do write some information to the bus, but only as specified + in the i2c/SMBus protocol to select a certain chip address and to + start/stop i2c transactions. -3/20/01