Commit 83274c68 authored Mar 01, 2011 by Guenter Roeck

hwmon: (pmbus) More stringent checking of VOUT_MODE register



Some PMBus chips do not support the VOUT_MODE register. To make matters worse,
such chips may not return an error when reading the register either, but instead
return 0xff.

Check if the register exists using pmbus_check_byte_register() before reading
its value. In addition, validate the returned value and ignore it if it is 0xff
(which is invalid).

Reported-by: Greg Schnorr <gschnorr@cisco.com>
Tested-by: Greg Schnorr <gschnorr@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
Acked-by: Greg Schnorr <gschnorr@cisco.com>

parent a3eeb453

drivers/hwmon/pmbus_core.c

+4 −3

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		@@ -1426,10 +1426,11 @@ static void pmbus_find_attributes(struct i2c_client *client,
		static int pmbus_identify_common(struct i2c_client *client,
		struct pmbus_data *data)
		{
		int vout_mode, exponent;
		int vout_mode = -1, exponent;

		if (pmbus_check_byte_register(client, 0, PMBUS_VOUT_MODE))
		vout_mode = pmbus_read_byte_data(client, 0, PMBUS_VOUT_MODE);
		if (vout_mode >= 0) {
		if (vout_mode >= 0 && vout_mode != 0xff) {
		/*
		* Not all chips support the VOUT_MODE command,
		* so a failure to read it is not an error.