Re: [PATCH 1/2] hwmon: (jc42) optionally try to disable the SMBUS timeout

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Fri Oct 13 2017 - 08:51:37 EST


On 10/13/2017 02:27 AM, Peter Rosin wrote:
With a nxp,se97 chip on an atmel sama5d31 board, the I2C adapter driver
is not always capable of avoiding the 25-35 ms timeout as specified by
the SMBUS protocol. This may cause silent corruption of the last bit of
any transfer, e.g. a one is read instead of a zero if the sensor chip
times out. This also affects the eeprom half of the nxp-se97 chip, where
this silent corruption was originally noticed. Other I2C adapters probably
suffer similar issues, e.g. bit-banging comes to mind as risky...

The SMBUS register in the nxp chip is not a standard Jedec register, but
it is not special to the nxp chips either, at least the atmel chips
have the same mechanism. Therefore, do not special case this on the
manufacturer, it is opt-in via the device property anyway.

Signed-off-by: Peter Rosin <peda@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hwmon/jc42.txt | 4 ++++
drivers/hwmon/jc42.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 24 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hwmon/jc42.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hwmon/jc42.txt
index 07a250498fbb..f569db58f64a 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hwmon/jc42.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hwmon/jc42.txt
@@ -34,6 +34,10 @@ Required properties:
- reg: I2C address
+Optional properties:
+- smbus-timeout-disable: When set, the smbus timeout function will be disabled.
+ This is not supported on all chips.
+
Example:
temp-sensor@1a {
diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/jc42.c b/drivers/hwmon/jc42.c
index 1bf22eff0b08..fd816902fa30 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/jc42.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/jc42.c
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ static const unsigned short normal_i2c[] = {
#define JC42_REG_TEMP 0x05
#define JC42_REG_MANID 0x06
#define JC42_REG_DEVICEID 0x07
+#define JC42_REG_SMBUS 0x22 /* NXP and Atmel, possibly others? */
/* Status bits in temperature register */
#define JC42_ALARM_CRIT_BIT 15
@@ -73,6 +74,9 @@ static const unsigned short normal_i2c[] = {
#define ONS_MANID 0x1b09 /* ON Semiconductor */
#define STM_MANID 0x104a /* ST Microelectronics */
+/* SMBUS register */
+#define SMBUS_STMOUT BIT(7) /* SMBus time-out, active low */

Requires bitops.h.

Otherwise looks good, though we'll have to wait for Rob's ack.

Thanks,
Guenter