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"bus, cause data loss and worse!\n");
/* Don't let the user break his/her EEPROMs */
if (address >= 0x50 && address <= 0x57 && pec) {
fprintf(stderr, "STOP! EEPROMs are I2C devices, not "
"SMBus devices. Using PEC\non I2C devices may "
"result in unexpected results, such as\n"
"trashing the contents of EEPROMs. We can't "
"let you do that, sorry.\n");
return 0;
}
if (size == I2C_SMBUS_BYTE && daddress >= 0 && pec) {
fprintf(stderr, "WARNING! All I2C chips and some SMBus chips "
"will interpret a write\nbyte command with PEC as a"
"write byte data command, effectively writing a\n"
"value into a register!\n");
dont++;
}
fprintf(stderr, "I will read from device file %s, chip "
"address 0x%02x, ", filename, address);
if (daddress < 0)
fprintf(stderr, "current data\naddress");
else
fprintf(stderr, "data address\n0x%02x", daddress);
fprintf(stderr, ", using %s.\n",
size == I2C_SMBUS_BYTE ? (daddress < 0 ?
"read byte" : "write byte/read byte") :
size == I2C_SMBUS_BYTE_DATA ? "read byte data" :
"read word data");
if (pec)
fprintf(stderr, "PEC checking enabled.\n");
fprintf(stderr, "Continue? [%s] ", dont ? "y/N" : "Y/n");
fflush(stderr);
if (!user_ack(!dont)) {
fprintf(stderr, "Aborting on user request.\n");