Re: [PATCH 1/3] hwmon: spd5118: Do not fail resume on temporary I2C errors

[Guenter Roeck]

On 1/26/26 01:40, Armin Wolf wrote:
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> > > Besides that: did the spd5118 driver load automatically on your device?
> >
> > I thought that was disabled. The i801 driver is supposed to detect if write
> > protect is enabled and, if so, it is supposed to not instantiate the spd5118
> > driver for DDR3. Support for this was added with commit 4d6d35d3417d ("i2c:
> > smbus: introduce Write Disable-aware SPD instantiating functions"). Apparently
> > the code to do this never made it into the i801 driver.
> >
> > The i801 driver needs to be fixed to inform the spd initialization code
> > that the spd5118 address range is write protected. The patch to do this was
> > "i2c: i801: Do not instantiate spd5118 under SPD Write Disable". I have no idea
> > why that patch didn't make it upstream.
> >
> > Guenter
> Good question, do you want to send the message to the i2c maintainers about this
> or should i do it?

Please go ahead. I am so far behind with everything :-(.

Thanks,
Guenter