This patch contains 2 sets of fixes for the abituguru:
1) Much improved timeout handling, drasticly reducing the amount of
timeout errors on some motherboards
2) Fix the exit paths in the bank1 sensor type detect code to always
restore the original settings even on an error. Without this our
special test settings could remain seriously confusing the system
BIOS's setup menu.
Both are very much related and are must haves, to avoid messing up the
uguru CMOS settings.
Detailed changes:
- Much improved timeout / wait for status handling. Many thanks to Sunil
Kumar, for all his testing, ideas and patches! The code now first busy
waits, polling the uguru for the expected status as this usually
succeeds pretty quickly (within 90 reads). To avoid unnecessary CPU burn
in timeout conditions, the amount of busy waiting has been halved from
previous versions (120 tries instead of 250). This is not a problem,
because this version goes to sleep after 120 attemps for 1 jiffy and
then tries again, it does this sleep and try again 5 times before
finally giving up. This (almost?) completly removes the timeout errors
some people have seen regulary. Apparently some older uguru versions
sometimes are distracted for a (relatively) long time. This solves this.
- These timeout errors not only occur in the sending address part of
reading the uguru but also in the wait for read state, so errors in
this state are now handled as retryable just like send address state
errors and are only logged and reported to userspace if 3 executive
tries fail.
- Fix a very nasty bug in the bank1 sensor type detection code, where it
would not restore the original settings in any of the error paths!
- Since not successfully restoring the original settings can seriously
confuse the system BIOS (hang when entering the relevant setup menu),
we now try restoring them 3 times before giving up.
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Now that the abituguru driver is seeing some more widespread testing
it has turned out that one the first generation of Abit uGuru
motherboards, with uGuru revision 1, the autodetect bank1 sensor type
code doesn't (always) work. This patch adds a module param to override
the autodetect, and it adds validity checks for the value of the 2
other autodetection override module params. An example of howto use
the new param can be found here:
http://lm-sensors.org/wiki/Configurations/Abit/AN7
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
One of my testers had a problem where the driver only saw 2 of the 4 fan
sensors his uGuru has, this fixes this.
-accept 0x40 (bit 6) being high as a valid fan sensor setting for all fans
not just fan 1, I have a feeling this bit indicates whether or not a fan is
actually connected .
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fixes to the Abit uGuru driver as requested in review by Jean Delvare:
- exactly calculate the sysfs_names array length using macro
- use snprintf when generating names to double check that the sysfs_names
array does not overflow.
- use ARRAY_SIZE and / or defines to determine number of loops in for loops
instead of using hardcoded values.
- In abituguru_probe(), refactor the error path leaving a single call to kfree
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
New hardware monitoring driver for the Abit uGuru
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Hans de Goede