Re: [PATCH v3] platform/x86: int3472: support the POWER1 GPIO type

From: Jakob Berg Jespersen

Date: Mon Aug 31 2026 - 06:00:50 EST


Hi Sergey, thank you for testing it on your SP11

Does any of the maintainers want me to send out a v4 of this patch where I include a commit message with this limitation related to ov13858?

Best,
Jakob

On Sunday, August 30th, 2026 at 15:41, Sergey Lebedev <lsa.uz@xxxxx> wrote:

> Hans pointed me at this from a report I sent this morning about the same
> GPIO type on a Surface Pro 11 - thank you, and sorry for the duplicate
> question. I have now tested this patch on that machine, which is a third
> model and, more usefully, a different sensor. Result below, with the part
> that is still missing for this sensor family.
>
> Tested-by: Sergey Lebedev <lsa.uz@xxxxx> # Surface Pro 11, INT3472 side
>
> What the patch fixes here
> -------------------------
>
> Built on 7.0.0-30 (Ubuntu 26.04). The warning is gone and the rail is
> mapped:
>
> before: int3472-discrete INT3472:00: GPIO type 0x08 unknown;
> the sensor may not work
> after : no int3472 messages at all
>
> /sys/class/regulator:
> regulator.1 INT3472:00-avdd
> regulator.2 INT3472:00-dvdd <- new, from this patch
> regulator.3 INT3472:01-avdd
> regulator.4 INT3472:01-dovdd
> regulator.5 INT3472:02-avdd
>
> Nothing else regressed: audio, Secure Boot and module signing unaffected,
> no failed units.
>
> What it does not fix, and why that is not this patch's fault
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The camera is exactly as dead as before:
>
> ov13858 i2c-OVTID858:00: failed to find sensor: -5
> every regulator: num_users=0, state=disabled
> /dev/media0: 0 entities
>
> The rear sensor here is an OV13858, and the in-tree ov13858 driver requests
> no regulators and touches no GPIOs at all - zero `regulator` and zero
> `gpiod` references in drivers/media/i2c/ov13858.c. So INT3472:00-dvdd is
> registered and then never claimed by anyone, and the sensor is still held
> in reset because nothing releases it.
>
> That is exactly the difference between your machine and this one. ov8865
> asks for "dvdd", "dovdd" and "avdd" by name, so mapping POWER1 to "dvdd"
> completes the picture for the Surface Pro 7+. ov13858 asks for nothing.
>
> The same conclusion was reached independently on the Surface Pro 10, which
> carries the same OV13858:
>
> https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/issues/2153
>
> There they had to add reset-GPIO handling to ov13858_probe() and force the
> regulators on, and describe the latter as too broad for upstream.
>
> So: this patch is correct and necessary, and for the OV13858 machines it is
> not sufficient. The remaining work is in the sensor driver rather than in
> int3472, which seems worth stating explicitly so nobody expects the Pro 10
> or Pro 11 rear camera to start working when this lands.
>
> If it would help, I am happy to test a patch teaching ov13858 to request
> its supplies and release reset - it is the same shape as what ov8865
> already does. The machine is here and I can build and boot kernels on it.
>
> One note for anyone reproducing this out-of-tree: the module build uses
> /usr/src/linux-headers-<ver>/include/, not the patched source tree, so
> patching only the tree gives 'INT3472_GPIO_TYPE_POWER1' undeclared. The
> installed header has to be patched too.
>
> Thanks,
> Sergey
>