2023-10-09 21:17:01

by Lakshmi Yadlapati

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Subject: [PATCH v1 2/2] hwmon: (pmbus/max31785) Add minimum delay between bus accesses

The MAX31785 has shown erratic behaviour across multiple system
designs, unexpectedly clock stretching and NAKing transactions.
Inserting a small delay (250us) after register writes makes the
issue go away.

Signed-off-by: Lakshmi Yadlapati <[email protected]>
---
drivers/hwmon/pmbus/max31785.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/max31785.c b/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/max31785.c
index f9aa576495a5..532e1c8f632c 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/max31785.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/max31785.c
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@

#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/moduleparam.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/err.h>
#include <linux/i2c.h>
@@ -24,6 +25,9 @@ enum max31785_regs {
#define MAX31785_NR_PAGES 23
#define MAX31785_NR_FAN_PAGES 6

+static unsigned long throttle_delay_us = 250;
+module_param(throttle_delay_us, ulong, 0664);
+
static int max31785_read_byte_data(struct i2c_client *client, int page,
int reg)
{
@@ -337,6 +341,10 @@ static int max31785_probe(struct i2c_client *client)
I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_WORD_DATA))
return -ENODEV;

+ ret = i2c_smbus_throttle_client(client, throttle_delay_us);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+
info = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(struct pmbus_driver_info), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!info)
return -ENOMEM;
--
2.39.2