[PATCH] rtc: nct3018y: report chassis intrusion through hwmon

From: Eric Liu

Date: Thu Oct 01 2026 - 01:45:33 EST


Add an hwmon intrusion alarm for the chip's chassis intrusion latch.
Reading it says whether the chassis has been opened since the latch was
last cleared; writing 0 clears it and re-arms.

Signed-off-by: Eric Liu <liuer@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Tested on an NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL BMC (Aspeed AST2600, kernel 6.18.47)
with an NCT3018Y on i2c5 at 0x6f, opening and closing the chassis by hand.

# cd /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon0
# cat name
nct3018y

lid open:

# cat intrusion0_alarm
1

a non-zero write is rejected:

# echo 1 > intrusion0_alarm
sh: echo: write error: Invalid argument
# cat intrusion0_alarm
1

lid closed -- the latch is held, closing the chassis does not clear it:

# cat intrusion0_alarm
1

cleared through the driver:

# echo 0 > intrusion0_alarm
# cat intrusion0_alarm
0

lid opened again, re-armed:

# cat intrusion0_alarm
1

Note the latch can only be cleared while the chassis is closed: the flag is
set on "POR or INTRUDER# asserted", so with the lid open the hardware sets
it again immediately after the write.

Build-tested for arm with W=1 and no new warnings, for CONFIG_HWMON=y, =m
and =n.

drivers/rtc/rtc-nct3018y.c | 94 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 94 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-nct3018y.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-nct3018y.c
index 2f7ad57057a4..194ba077363a 100644
--- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-nct3018y.c
+++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-nct3018y.c
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
#include <linux/bcd.h>
#include <linux/clk-provider.h>
#include <linux/err.h>
+#include <linux/hwmon.h>
#include <linux/i2c.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/of.h>
@@ -23,6 +24,7 @@
#define NCT3018Y_REG_CTRL 0x0A /* timer control */
#define NCT3018Y_REG_ST 0x0B /* status */
#define NCT3018Y_REG_CLKO 0x0C /* clock out */
+#define NCT3018Y_REG_INTR_CTRL 0x12 /* intrusion control */
#define NCT3018Y_REG_PART 0x21 /* part info */

#define NCT3018Y_BIT_AF BIT(7)
@@ -34,6 +36,7 @@
#define NCT3018Y_BIT_OFIE BIT(2)
#define NCT3018Y_BIT_CIE BIT(1)
#define NCT3018Y_BIT_TWO BIT(0)
+#define NCT3018Y_BIT_INTRUSION BIT(1) /* in NCT3018Y_REG_INTR_CTRL */

#define NCT3018Y_REG_BAT_MASK 0x07
#define NCT3018Y_REG_CLKO_F_MASK 0x03 /* frequenc mask */
@@ -491,6 +494,95 @@ static const struct rtc_class_ops nct3018y_rtc_ops = {
.ioctl = nct3018y_ioctl,
};

+#if IS_REACHABLE(CONFIG_HWMON)
+
+static umode_t nct3018y_hwmon_is_visible(const void *data,
+ enum hwmon_sensor_types type,
+ u32 attr, int channel)
+{
+ if (type == hwmon_intrusion && attr == hwmon_intrusion_alarm)
+ return 0644;
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static int nct3018y_hwmon_read(struct device *dev,
+ enum hwmon_sensor_types type, u32 attr,
+ int channel, long *val)
+{
+ struct nct3018y *nct3018y = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
+ int flags;
+
+ flags = i2c_smbus_read_byte_data(nct3018y->client,
+ NCT3018Y_REG_INTR_CTRL);
+ if (flags < 0)
+ return flags;
+
+ *val = !!(flags & NCT3018Y_BIT_INTRUSION);
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static int nct3018y_hwmon_write(struct device *dev,
+ enum hwmon_sensor_types type, u32 attr,
+ int channel, long val)
+{
+ struct nct3018y *nct3018y = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
+ int flags;
+
+ /* The alarm latches until it is cleared, and only clearing is a
+ * meaningful thing to ask for.
+ */
+ if (val)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ flags = i2c_smbus_read_byte_data(nct3018y->client,
+ NCT3018Y_REG_INTR_CTRL);
+ if (flags < 0)
+ return flags;
+
+ return i2c_smbus_write_byte_data(nct3018y->client,
+ NCT3018Y_REG_INTR_CTRL,
+ flags & ~NCT3018Y_BIT_INTRUSION);
+}
+
+static const struct hwmon_channel_info * const nct3018y_hwmon_info[] = {
+ HWMON_CHANNEL_INFO(intrusion, HWMON_INTRUSION_ALARM),
+ NULL
+};
+
+static const struct hwmon_ops nct3018y_hwmon_ops = {
+ .is_visible = nct3018y_hwmon_is_visible,
+ .read = nct3018y_hwmon_read,
+ .write = nct3018y_hwmon_write,
+};
+
+static const struct hwmon_chip_info nct3018y_hwmon_chip_info = {
+ .ops = &nct3018y_hwmon_ops,
+ .info = nct3018y_hwmon_info,
+};
+
+static void nct3018y_hwmon_register(struct nct3018y *nct3018y)
+{
+ struct device *dev;
+
+ dev = devm_hwmon_device_register_with_info(&nct3018y->client->dev,
+ "nct3018y", nct3018y,
+ &nct3018y_hwmon_chip_info,
+ NULL);
+ if (IS_ERR(dev))
+ dev_warn(&nct3018y->client->dev,
+ "unable to register hwmon device %ld\n", PTR_ERR(dev));
+}
+
+#else
+
+static void nct3018y_hwmon_register(struct nct3018y *nct3018y)
+{
+}
+
+#endif /* IS_REACHABLE(CONFIG_HWMON) */
+
static int nct3018y_probe(struct i2c_client *client)
{
struct nct3018y *nct3018y;
@@ -568,6 +660,8 @@ static int nct3018y_probe(struct i2c_client *client)
nct3018y_clkout_register_clk(nct3018y);
#endif

+ nct3018y_hwmon_register(nct3018y);
+
return devm_rtc_register_device(nct3018y->rtc);
}

--
2.34.1