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-rw-r--r--drivers/hwmon/pmbus/pmbus_core.c8
-rw-r--r--include/linux/pmbus.h9
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/pmbus_core.c b/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/pmbus_core.c
index 01a1ffc74bb6..a5367df1cee8 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/pmbus_core.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/pmbus_core.c
@@ -2231,9 +2231,11 @@ static int pmbus_init_common(struct i2c_client *client, struct pmbus_data *data,
* faults, and we should not try it. Also, in that case, writes into
* limit registers need to be disabled.
*/
- ret = i2c_smbus_read_byte_data(client, PMBUS_WRITE_PROTECT);
- if (ret > 0 && (ret & PB_WP_ANY))
- data->flags |= PMBUS_WRITE_PROTECTED | PMBUS_SKIP_STATUS_CHECK;
+ if (!(data->flags & PMBUS_NO_WRITE_PROTECT)) {
+ ret = i2c_smbus_read_byte_data(client, PMBUS_WRITE_PROTECT);
+ if (ret > 0 && (ret & PB_WP_ANY))
+ data->flags |= PMBUS_WRITE_PROTECTED | PMBUS_SKIP_STATUS_CHECK;
+ }
if (data->info->pages)
pmbus_clear_faults(client);
diff --git a/include/linux/pmbus.h b/include/linux/pmbus.h
index edd7c84fef65..12c515a27d3a 100644
--- a/include/linux/pmbus.h
+++ b/include/linux/pmbus.h
@@ -56,6 +56,15 @@
*/
#define PMBUS_READ_STATUS_AFTER_FAILED_CHECK BIT(3)
+/*
+ * PMBUS_NO_WRITE_PROTECT
+ *
+ * Some PMBus chips respond with invalid data when reading the WRITE_PROTECT
+ * register. For such chips, this flag should be set so that the PMBus core
+ * driver doesn't use the WRITE_PROTECT command to determine its behavior.
+ */
+#define PMBUS_NO_WRITE_PROTECT BIT(4)
+
struct pmbus_platform_data {
u32 flags; /* Device specific flags */