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authorZev Weiss <zev@bewilderbeest.net>2022-04-26 20:51:09 -0700
committerGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>2022-04-27 04:52:18 -0700
commit08da09f028043fed9653331ae75bc310411f72e6 (patch)
tree084f1682f5bb2cb8dccece5ab76cef1aa7c1c4a9 /drivers/hwmon/pmbus
parent75d2b2b06bd8407d03a3f126bc8b95eb356906c7 (diff)
hwmon: (pmbus) delta-ahe50dc-fan: work around hardware quirk
CLEAR_FAULTS commands can apparently sometimes trigger catastrophic power output glitches on the ahe-50dc, so block them from being sent at all. Signed-off-by: Zev Weiss <zev@bewilderbeest.net> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220427035109.3819-1-zev@bewilderbeest.net Fixes: d387d88ed045 ("hwmon: (pmbus) Add Delta AHE-50DC fan control module driver") Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/hwmon/pmbus')
-rw-r--r--drivers/hwmon/pmbus/delta-ahe50dc-fan.c16
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/delta-ahe50dc-fan.c b/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/delta-ahe50dc-fan.c
index 40dffd9c4cbf..f546f0c12497 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/delta-ahe50dc-fan.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/delta-ahe50dc-fan.c
@@ -14,6 +14,21 @@
#define AHE50DC_PMBUS_READ_TEMP4 0xd0
+static int ahe50dc_fan_write_byte(struct i2c_client *client, int page, u8 value)
+{
+ /*
+ * The CLEAR_FAULTS operation seems to sometimes (unpredictably, perhaps
+ * 5% of the time or so) trigger a problematic phenomenon in which the
+ * fan speeds surge momentarily and at least some (perhaps all?) of the
+ * system's power outputs experience a glitch.
+ *
+ * However, according to Delta it should be OK to simply not send any
+ * CLEAR_FAULTS commands (the device doesn't seem to be capable of
+ * reporting any faults anyway), so just blackhole them unconditionally.
+ */
+ return value == PMBUS_CLEAR_FAULTS ? -EOPNOTSUPP : -ENODATA;
+}
+
static int ahe50dc_fan_read_word_data(struct i2c_client *client, int page, int phase, int reg)
{
/* temp1 in (virtual) page 1 is remapped to mfr-specific temp4 */
@@ -68,6 +83,7 @@ static struct pmbus_driver_info ahe50dc_fan_info = {
PMBUS_HAVE_VIN | PMBUS_HAVE_FAN12 | PMBUS_HAVE_FAN34 |
PMBUS_HAVE_STATUS_FAN12 | PMBUS_HAVE_STATUS_FAN34 | PMBUS_PAGE_VIRTUAL,
.func[1] = PMBUS_HAVE_TEMP | PMBUS_PAGE_VIRTUAL,
+ .write_byte = ahe50dc_fan_write_byte,
.read_word_data = ahe50dc_fan_read_word_data,
};