via: Rationalize vt1636 detection

The code was ugly and didn't check whether i2c operations were succeeding;
make it a little better.

Cc: ScottFang@viatech.com.cn
Cc: JosephChan@via.com.tw
Cc: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
Acked-by: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>