[PATCH 3/3] hwmon: spd5118: Avoid hardware access during suspend and resume

From: Tinsae Tadesse

Date: Sat Jan 10 2026 - 12:20:39 EST


The SPD5118 hub may be inaccessible during suspend/resume.
Avoid updating/writing hardware in PM callbacks by switching the regmap
to cache-only mode during suspend and deferring synchronization
until first access.

This prevents the below I2C errors and async resume failures.

spd5118 ...: Failed to write b = 0: -6
spd5118 ...: PM: dpm_run_callback(): spd5118_resume returns -6
spd5118 ...: PM: failed to resume async: error -6

Signed-off-by: Tinsae Tadesse <tinsaetadesse2015@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/hwmon/spd5118.c | 36 ++++++++++--------------------------
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/spd5118.c b/drivers/hwmon/spd5118.c
index 63f798991363..a8afde7f47b2 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/spd5118.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/spd5118.c
@@ -494,25 +494,12 @@ static const struct regmap_config spd5118_regmap16_config = {
static int spd5118_suspend(struct device *dev)
{
struct spd5118_data *data = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
- struct regmap *regmap = data->regmap;
- u32 regval;
- int err;

/*
- * Make sure the configuration register in the regmap cache is current
- * before bypassing it.
+ * The SPD5118 hub may be inaccessible; avoid hardware access.
*/
- err = regmap_read(regmap, SPD5118_REG_TEMP_CONFIG, &regval);
- if (err < 0)
- return err;
-
- regcache_cache_bypass(regmap, true);
- regmap_update_bits(regmap, SPD5118_REG_TEMP_CONFIG, SPD5118_TS_DISABLE,
- SPD5118_TS_DISABLE);
- regcache_cache_bypass(regmap, false);
-
- regcache_cache_only(regmap, true);
- regcache_mark_dirty(regmap);
+ regcache_cache_only(data->regmap, true);
+ regcache_mark_dirty(data->regmap);

return 0;
}
@@ -520,16 +507,13 @@ static int spd5118_suspend(struct device *dev)
static int spd5118_resume(struct device *dev)
{
struct spd5118_data *data = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
- struct regmap *regmap = data->regmap;
- int ret;
-
- regcache_cache_only(regmap, false);
- ret = regcache_sync(regmap);
- if(ret == -ENXIO || ret == -EIO) {
- dev_warn(dev, "SPD hub not responding on resume (%d), deferring init\n", ret);
- return 0;
- }
- return ret;
+
+ /*
+ * Re-enable hardware access; sync is deferred until first read.
+ */
+ regcache_cache_only(data->regmap, false);
+
+ return 0;
}

static DEFINE_SIMPLE_DEV_PM_OPS(spd5118_pm_ops, spd5118_suspend, spd5118_resume);
--
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