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 --- drivers/hwmon/pmbus/delta-ahe50dc-fan.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

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, };