Hi Guenter,
On Wed, 3 Aug 2016 22:15:37 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> Since commit 698a7c24a544 ("hwmon: (nct6775) Support two SuperIO chips
> in the same system"), the driver supports two Super-IO chips. This has
> the undesirable side effect that force_id always detects a second chip
> at address 0xfff8, even if no chip exists at that address.
>
> nct6775: Found NCT6793D or compatible chip at 0x4e:0xfff8
>
> If no chip at all is found at a given SIO address, it does not make sense
> to instantiate it. Limit force_id to only work if some chip is found,
> that is if the chip ID returns a value other than 0xffff.
Agreed, good catch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/hwmon/nct6775.c | 8 ++++----
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/nct6775.c b/drivers/hwmon/nct6775.c
> index d087a8e00cf5..7859a30ce31e 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwmon/nct6775.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/nct6775.c
> @@ -4232,11 +4232,11 @@ static int __init nct6775_find(int sioaddr, struct nct6775_sio_data *sio_data)
> if (err)
> return err;
>
> - if (force_id)
> + val = (superio_inb(sioaddr, SIO_REG_DEVID) << 8) |
> + superio_inb(sioaddr, SIO_REG_DEVID + 1);
> + if (force_id && val != 0xffff)
> val = force_id;
> - else
> - val = (superio_inb(sioaddr, SIO_REG_DEVID) << 8)
> - | superio_inb(sioaddr, SIO_REG_DEVID + 1);
> +
> switch (val & SIO_ID_MASK) {
> case SIO_NCT6106_ID:
> sio_data->kind = nct6106;
Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx>
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Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support
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