diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/lm70 b/Documentation/hwmon/lm70
index 0d240291e3cc4a142d23bf8122e28ece51fd2d4b..1bb1f20951cab60f7b3853111e10908c0dcf1ba4 100644
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/lm70
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/lm70
@@ -31,9 +31,8 @@ As a real (in-tree) example of this "SPI protocol driver" interfacing
 with a "SPI master controller driver", see drivers/spi/spi_lm70llp.c
 and its associated documentation.
 
-The TMP121/TMP123 are very similar; main differences are 4 wire SPI inter-
-face (read only) and 13-bit temperature data (0.0625 degrees celsius reso-
-lution).
+The TMP121/TMP123 are very similar; main difference is 13-bit temperature
+data (0.0625 degrees celsius resolution).
 
 Thanks to
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diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/lm70.c b/drivers/hwmon/lm70.c
index dd7f0cafd197c85db5e76e81f60d6ab925fe9091..1da62f616db5964fd064f898b1a02d0d0083fab8 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/lm70.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/lm70.c
@@ -143,10 +143,6 @@ static int __devinit lm70_probe(struct spi_device *spi)
 	if (spi->mode & (SPI_CPOL | SPI_CPHA))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	/* 3-wire link (shared SI/SO) for LM70 */
-	if (chip == LM70_CHIP_LM70 && !(spi->mode & SPI_3WIRE))
-		return -EINVAL;
-
 	/* NOTE:  we assume 8-bit words, and convert to 16 bits manually */
 
 	p_lm70 = devm_kzalloc(&spi->dev, sizeof(*p_lm70), GFP_KERNEL);