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[linux-2.6.git] / Documentation / i2c / busses / i2c-viapro

diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro
index 702f5ac..1677566 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro
+++ b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro
@@ -4,17 +4,16 @@ Supported adapters:
   * VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596A/B
     Datasheet: Sometimes available at the VIA website
 
-  * VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686A/B 
+  * VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686A/B
     Datasheet: Sometimes available at the VIA website
 
-  * VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8231, VT8233, VT8233A, VT8235, VT8237
-    Datasheet: available on request from Via
+  * VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8231, VT8233, VT8233A, VT8235, VT8237R
+    Datasheet: available on request from VIA
 
 Authors:
-       Frodo Looijaard <frodol@dds.nl>,  
-       Philip Edelbrock <phil@netroedge.com>, 
-       Kyösti Mälkki <kmalkki@cc.hut.fi>, 
-       Mark D. Studebaker <mdsxyz123@yahoo.com> 
+       Kyösti Mälkki <kmalkki@cc.hut.fi>,
+       Mark D. Studebaker <mdsxyz123@yahoo.com>,
+       Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
 
 Module Parameters
 -----------------
@@ -28,20 +27,22 @@ Description
 -----------
 
 i2c-viapro is a true SMBus host driver for motherboards with one of the
-supported VIA southbridges.
+supported VIA south bridges.
 
 Your lspci -n listing must show one of these :
 
- device 1106:3050   (VT82C596 function 3)
- device 1106:3051   (VT82C596 function 3)
+ device 1106:3050   (VT82C596A function 3)
+ device 1106:3051   (VT82C596B function 3)
  device 1106:3057   (VT82C686 function 4)
  device 1106:3074   (VT8233)
  device 1106:3147   (VT8233A)
- device 1106:8235   (VT8231)
- devide 1106:3177   (VT8235)
- devide 1106:3227   (VT8237)
+ device 1106:8235   (VT8231 function 4)
+ device 1106:3177   (VT8235)
+ device 1106:3227   (VT8237R)
 
 If none of these show up, you should look in the BIOS for settings like
 enable ACPI / SMBus or even USB.
 
-
+Except for the oldest chips (VT82C596A/B, VT82C686A and most probably
+VT8231), this driver supports I2C block transactions. Such transactions
+are mainly useful to read from and write to EEPROMs.