Re: [RESEND] LM73 hwmon driver i2c auto-detection problem

[Robert Casanova <robertcasanova@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually that was one of my options but I couldn't find some i2c-dummy driver or something similar, but now that you pointed out I've found a compatible driver for that device and as�Guenter�said it does reserve the address not being available to the i2c subsystem for auto-detection.

If there was no compatible driver (or not yet) for a device in my same situation is there some sort of a generic driver to fill it up?

Thanks

On 30 August 2011 13:05, Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:25:42AM -0400, Robert Casanova wrote:
> We are trying to use the hwmon framework to read the temperature values out of
> a LM73 device we have in our i2c bus on the OMAPL-138. It's current address is
> 0x49.
> The actual behavior for the LM73 driver seems to be to try to autodetect if
> there are any other devices of that same type on the i2c bus by looking at the
> std addresses where it could find one:
> 0x48, 0x49, 0x4a, 0x4c, 0x4d, 0x4e
>
> What happens is that we have a different device with completely different
> registers at @0x48 so when the autodetection method gets called it tries to
> read 2bytes out of the register 0x07 and this other device has only 1byte of
> data at that register, then the whole bus times out.
>
> We have tried declaring the devices we have during our board setup statically,
> for instance:
> static const struct i2c_board_info __initconst i2c_devices[] = {
> {
> I2C_BOARD_INFO("lm73", 0x49),
> },
> };
>
> static __init void board_init(void) {
> ...
> i2c_register_board_info(1/* i2c-0 above was registered i2c_davinci.1*/,
> i2c_devices,
> ARRAY_SIZE(i2c_devices));
> ...
> }
>
> But even when the driver gets instantiated at the proper address 0x49 the
> sensors_lm73_init gets called making the detect method to get called and
> testing an address that could be an LM73 but is not and hanging the bus.
>
> Has anyone found some of the same problems? Is there any way to avoid
> completely the autodetection for the hwmon framework? Should the i2c
> implementation be able to handle this situation gracefully?
>

Did you try to instantiate the _other_ device ? That should take care of the problem.

Instantiating the LM73 at address 0x49 won't help, since the i2c core code will still
attempt to auto-detect the chip at address 0x48.

Guenter

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