diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/pmbus_core.c b/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/pmbus_core.c
index 806c9a4913bb..5f69c1420b4e 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/pmbus_core.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/pmbus_core.c
@@ -1275,7 +1275,9 @@ static int pmbus_get_boolean(struct i2c_client *client, struct pmbus_boolean *b,
 
 	regval = status & mask;
 	if (regval) {
-		if (data->revision >= PMBUS_REV_12) {
+		/* Generic STATUS_WORD alarms are not individually clearable. */
+		if (data->revision >= PMBUS_REV_12 &&
+		    reg != PMBUS_STATUS_WORD) {
 			ret = _pmbus_write_byte_data(client, page, reg, regval);
 			if (ret)
 				return ret;