Currently for broken fan driver returns value calculated based on error
code (0xFF) in related fan speed register.
Thus, for such fan user gets fan{n}_fault to 1 and fan{n}_input with
misleading value.
Add check for fan fault prior return speed value and return zero if
fault is detected.
Fixes: 65afb4c8e7e4 ("hwmon: (mlxreg-fan) Add support for Mellanox FAN driver")
Signed-off-by: Vadim Pasternak <vadimp@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/hwmon/mlxreg-fan.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/mlxreg-fan.c b/drivers/hwmon/mlxreg-fan.c
index b48bd7c961d6..96017cc8da7e 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/mlxreg-fan.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/mlxreg-fan.c
@@ -155,6 +155,12 @@ mlxreg_fan_read(struct device *dev, enum hwmon_sensor_types type, u32 attr,
if (err)
return err;
+ if (MLXREG_FAN_GET_FAULT(regval, tacho->mask)) {
+ /* FAN is broken - return zero for FAN speed. */
+ *val = 0;
+ return 0;
+ }
+
*val = MLXREG_FAN_GET_RPM(regval, fan->divider,
fan->samples);
break;
--
2.20.1
