diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/porting-clients b/Documentation/i2c/porting-clients
index 5eb8d37cc679fef25ee3cce4e74de86e16e4069b..4849dfd6961c7d2ed2d21eb5e7a65cf72cf0b755 100644
--- a/Documentation/i2c/porting-clients
+++ b/Documentation/i2c/porting-clients
@@ -90,6 +90,8 @@ Technical changes:
   device_create_file. Move the driver initialization before any
   sysfs file creation.
   Drop client->id.
+  Drop any 24RF08 corruption prevention you find, as this is now done
+  at the i2c-core level, and doing it twice voids it.
 
 * [Init] Limits must not be set by the driver (can be done later in
   user-space). Chip should not be reset default (although a module
diff --git a/drivers/i2c/chips/eeprom.c b/drivers/i2c/chips/eeprom.c
index a27420a54c841e866acbe5ef3ac7a19cd31ef85d..d58403a479086d9b8660f85b0fcf5e4bbacbffe7 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/chips/eeprom.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/chips/eeprom.c
@@ -161,11 +161,6 @@ int eeprom_detect(struct i2c_adapter *adapter, int address, int kind)
 	struct eeprom_data *data;
 	int err = 0;
 
-	/* prevent 24RF08 corruption */
-	if (kind < 0)
-		i2c_smbus_xfer(adapter, address, 0, 0, 0,
-			       I2C_SMBUS_QUICK, NULL);
-
 	/* There are three ways we can read the EEPROM data:
 	   (1) I2C block reads (faster, but unsupported by most adapters)
 	   (2) Consecutive byte reads (100% overhead)
diff --git a/drivers/i2c/chips/max6875.c b/drivers/i2c/chips/max6875.c
index 31cee2d34a17ede7ce86ac96eb5ee0dd845c4594..9e1aeb69abf9fa1009e281e7a88f22e9aef21089 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/chips/max6875.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/chips/max6875.c
@@ -171,11 +171,6 @@ static int max6875_detect(struct i2c_adapter *adapter, int address, int kind)
 	struct max6875_data *data;
 	int err = 0;
 
-	/* Prevent 24rf08 corruption (in case of user error) */
-	if (kind < 0)
-		i2c_smbus_xfer(adapter, address, 0, 0, 0,
-			       I2C_SMBUS_QUICK, NULL);
-
 	if (!i2c_check_functionality(adapter, I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_WRITE_BYTE_DATA
 				     | I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_READ_BYTE))
 		return 0;
diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
index bee0148dfab8c60a54651a7d96b9004bcfc87420..dda472e5e8be3bca0be40f383b2643048c3d0c51 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
@@ -679,9 +679,16 @@ static int i2c_probe_address(struct i2c_adapter *adapter, int addr, int kind,
 		return 0;
 
 	/* Make sure there is something at this address, unless forced */
-	if (kind < 0
-	 && i2c_smbus_xfer(adapter, addr, 0, 0, 0, I2C_SMBUS_QUICK, NULL) < 0)
-		return 0;
+	if (kind < 0) {
+		if (i2c_smbus_xfer(adapter, addr, 0, 0, 0,
+				   I2C_SMBUS_QUICK, NULL) < 0)
+			return 0;
+
+		/* prevent 24RF08 corruption */
+		if ((addr & ~0x0f) == 0x50)
+			i2c_smbus_xfer(adapter, addr, 0, 0, 0,
+				       I2C_SMBUS_QUICK, NULL);
+	}
 
 	/* Finally call the custom detection function */
 	err = found_proc(adapter, addr, kind);