hwmon: (lm90) Support MAX1617 and LM84

MAX1617 and LM84 are stripped-down versions of LM90, so they can easily
be supported by the LM90 driver. The most difficult part is chip detection,
since those old chips do not support manufacturer ID or chip ID registers.

The "alarms" attribute is enabled for both chips to match the functionality
of the adm1021 driver. Chip detection was improved and is less prone to
misdetection than the chip detection in the adm1021 driver.

Devicetree nodes are not added for the added chips since it is quite
unlikely that such old chips will ever be used in a devicetree based
system. They can be added later if needed.

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>

1 files changed, 41 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/lm90.rst b/Documentation/hwmon/lm90.rst
index 313b18f6531d..e2ee0f2e1b7b 100644
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/lm90.rst
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/lm90.rst
@@ -3,6 +3,14 @@ Kernel driver lm90
 
 Supported chips:
 
+  * National Semiconductor LM84
+
+    Prefix: 'lm84'
+
+    Addresses scanned: I2C 0x18 - 0x1a, 0x29 - 0x2b, 0x4c - 0x4e
+
+    Datasheet: Publicly available at the National Semiconductor website
+
   * National Semiconductor LM90
 
     Prefix: 'lm90'
@@ -113,6 +121,22 @@ Supported chips:
 
 	       https://www.onsemi.com/PowerSolutions/product.do?id=NCT1008
 
+  * Maxim MAX1617
+
+    Prefix: 'max1617'
+
+    Addresses scanned: I2C 0x18 - 0x1a, 0x29 - 0x2b, 0x4c - 0x4e
+
+    Datasheet: Publicly available at the Maxim website
+
+  * Maxim MAX1617A
+
+    Prefix: 'max1617a'
+
+    Addresses scanned: I2C 0x18 - 0x1a, 0x29 - 0x2b, 0x4c - 0x4e
+
+    Datasheet: Publicly available at the Maxim website
+
   * Maxim MAX6642
 
     Prefix: 'max6642'
@@ -325,6 +349,12 @@ The LM90 is a digital temperature sensor. It senses its own temperature as
 well as the temperature of up to one external diode. It is compatible
 with many other devices, many of which are supported by this driver.
 
+The family of chips supported by this driver is derived from MAX1617.
+This chip as well as various compatible chips support a local and a remote
+temperature sensor with 8 bit accuracy. Later chips provide improved accuracy
+and other additional features such as hysteresis and temperature offset
+registers.
+
 Note that there is no easy way to differentiate between the MAX6657,
 MAX6658 and MAX6659 variants. The extra features of the MAX6659 are only
 supported by this driver if the chip is located at address 0x4d or 0x4e,
@@ -332,15 +362,22 @@ or if the chip type is explicitly selected as max6659.
 The MAX6680 and MAX6681 only differ in their pinout, therefore they obviously
 can't (and don't need to) be distinguished.
 
-The specificity of this family of chipsets over the ADM1021/LM84
-family is that it features critical limits with hysteresis, and an
-increased resolution of the remote temperature measurement.
-
 The different chipsets of the family are not strictly identical, although
 very similar. For reference, here comes a non-exhaustive list of specific
 features:
 
+LM84:
+  * 8 bit sensor resolution
+
+MAX1617:
+  * 8 bit sensor resolution
+  * Low temperature limits
+
 LM90:
+  * 11 bit resolution for remote temperature sensor
+  * Temperature offset register for remote temperature sensor
+  * Low and critical temperature limits
+  * Configurable conversion rate
   * Filter and alert configuration register at 0xBF.
   * ALERT is triggered by temperatures over critical limits.