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diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro
index ef0f1e94e726..387cbd4015fc 100644
--- a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro
+++ b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ Authors:
Frodo Looijaard <frodol@dds.nl>,
Philip Edelbrock <phil@netroedge.com>,
Kyösti Mälkki <kmalkki@cc.hut.fi>,
- Mark D. Studebaker <mdsxyz123@yahoo.com>
+ Mark D. Studebaker <mdsxyz123@yahoo.com>,
+ Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Module Parameters
-----------------
@@ -43,3 +44,7 @@ Your lspci -n listing must show one of these :
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.