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From: Erik Rosen <erik.rosen@metormote.com>
To: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.com>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Erik Rosen <erik.rosen@metormote.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/3] hwmon: (pmbus) Add documentation for new flags
Date: Fri,  7 May 2021 21:40:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210507194023.61138-3-erik.rosen@metormote.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210507194023.61138-1-erik.rosen@metormote.com>

Add documentation for the new pmbus flags PMBUS_WRITE_PROTECTED,
PMBUS_NO_CAPABILITY and PMBUS_READ_STATUS_AFTER_FAILED_CHECK

Signed-off-by: Erik Rosen <erik.rosen@metormote.com>
---
 Documentation/hwmon/pmbus-core.rst | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/pmbus-core.rst b/Documentation/hwmon/pmbus-core.rst
index 73e23ab42cc3..102c50e2be3d 100644
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/pmbus-core.rst
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/pmbus-core.rst
@@ -289,12 +289,22 @@ PMBus driver platform data
 ==========================
 
 PMBus platform data is defined in include/linux/pmbus.h. Platform data
-currently only provides a flag field with a single bit used::
+currently provides a flags field with four bits used::
 
-	#define PMBUS_SKIP_STATUS_CHECK (1 << 0)
+	#define PMBUS_SKIP_STATUS_CHECK			BIT(0)
+
+	#define PMBUS_WRITE_PROTECTED			BIT(1)
+
+	#define PMBUS_NO_CAPABILITY			BIT(2)
+
+	#define PMBUS_READ_STATUS_AFTER_FAILED_CHECK	BIT(3)
 
 	struct pmbus_platform_data {
 		u32 flags;              /* Device specific flags */
+
+		/* regulator support */
+		int num_regulators;
+		struct regulator_init_data *reg_init_data;
 	};
 
 
@@ -302,8 +312,9 @@ Flags
 -----
 
 PMBUS_SKIP_STATUS_CHECK
-	During register detection, skip checking the status register for
-	communication or command errors.
+
+During register detection, skip checking the status register for
+communication or command errors.
 
 Some PMBus chips respond with valid data when trying to read an unsupported
 register. For such chips, checking the status register is mandatory when
@@ -315,3 +326,26 @@ status register must be disabled.
 Some i2c controllers do not support single-byte commands (write commands with
 no data, i2c_smbus_write_byte()). With such controllers, clearing the status
 register is impossible, and the PMBUS_SKIP_STATUS_CHECK flag must be set.
+
+PMBUS_WRITE_PROTECTED
+
+Set if the chip is write protected and write protection is not determined
+by the standard WRITE_PROTECT command.
+
+PMBUS_NO_CAPABILITY
+
+Some PMBus chips don't respond with valid data when reading the CAPABILITY
+register. For such chips, this flag should be set so that the PMBus core
+driver doesn't use CAPABILITY to determine it's behavior.
+
+PMBUS_READ_STATUS_AFTER_FAILED_CHECK
+
+Read the STATUS register after each failed register check.
+
+Some PMBus chips end up in an undefined state when trying to read an
+unsupported register. For such chips, it is necessary to reset the
+chip pmbus controller to a known state after a failed register check.
+This can be done by reading a known register. By setting this flag the
+driver will try to read the STATUS register after each failed
+register check. This read may fail, but it will put the chip into a
+known state.
\ No newline at end of file
-- 
2.20.1


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-05-07 19:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-07 19:40 [PATCH v2 0/3] hwmon: (pmbus) Add support for additional Flex BMR converters to the pmbus driver Erik Rosen
2021-05-07 19:40 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] hwmon: (pmbus) Add new flag PMBUS_READ_STATUS_AFTER_FAILED_CHECK Erik Rosen
2021-05-07 19:40 ` Erik Rosen [this message]
2021-05-07 19:40 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] hwmon: (pmbus) Add support for additional Flex BMR converters to pmbus Erik Rosen
2021-05-10 16:38 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] hwmon: (pmbus) Add support for additional Flex BMR converters to the pmbus driver Guenter Roeck

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