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Bug#853122: [Regression] Changes to i2c-piix4.c initialisation prevent loading of sp5100_tco watchdog driver on AMD SB800 chipset

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> Unfortunately, commit 2fee61d22e (i2c: piix4: Add support for
> multiplexed main adapter in SB800) [1] caused a regression. Tim
> reported that to the Linux Kernel Bugtracker as bug #170741 last
> September [2], but it looks like the affected subsystems don’t use it.

Jean Delvare pointed out this issue amongst others[1] last year already.
Let me quote:

===

5* The I/O ports used for SMBus configuration and port switching are
also needed by a watchdog driver, sp5100_tco. Both drivers request the
region, so the first one wins, and the other driver can't be loaded.
sp5100_tco was there first, so the changes done to the i2c-piix4 driver
recently will cause a regression for some users by preventing them
from using the sp5100_tco and i2c-piix4 drivers at the same time. In
the long run I guess we will need a helper module to handle this shared
resource. Unless IORESOURCE_MUXED can be used for that. Either way,
that's more work than I can put into this before kernel v4.5 is
released. For the time being, I think we should simply make it
non-fatal if the I/O ports can't be requested, and continue without
multiplexing (as before.)

===

Seems nobody had the resources, so far. I don't have the HW and not much
experience with non-embedded platforms. I wonder, though, if we really
need to convert the drivers to MFD ones, or if we could use the simpler
MFD_SYSCON mechanism which helps in exactly such cases for embedded
platforms. But I am really lacking details here and am afraid this is
probably all the input I can give currently.

Regards,

   Wolfram

[1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-i2c/msg23437.html

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Bug#853122: sp5100_tco: I/O address 0x0cd6 already in use Paul Menzel <pm.debian@googlemail.com> - 2017-01-29 23:30 +0100
  Processed: sp5100_tco: I/O address 0x0cd6 already in use owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) - 2017-01-29 23:30 +0100
  Bug#853122: [Regression] Changes to i2c-piix4.c initialisation prevent loading of sp5100_tco watchdog driver on AMD SB800 chipset Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net> - 2017-03-03 10:00 +0100
    Bug#853122: [Regression] Changes to i2c-piix4.c initialisation prevent loading of sp5100_tco watchdog driver on AMD SB800 chipset Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de> - 2017-03-03 11:30 +0100
      Bug#853122: [Regression] Changes to i2c-piix4.c initialisation prevent loading of sp5100_tco watchdog driver on AMD SB800 chipset Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net> - 2017-03-31 09:30 +0200
        Bug#853122: [Regression] Changes to i2c-piix4.c initialisation prevent loading of sp5100_tco watchdog driver on AMD SB800 chipset Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2017-03-31 15:20 +0200
          Bug#853122: [Regression] Changes to i2c-piix4.c initialisation prevent loading of sp5100_tco watchdog driver on AMD SB800 chipset Boszormenyi Zoltan <zboszor@pr.hu> - 2017-03-31 16:50 +0200
            Bug#853122: [Regression] Changes to i2c-piix4.c initialisation prevent loading of sp5100_tco watchdog driver on AMD SB800 chipset Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2017-03-31 17:10 +0200
              Bug#853122: [Regression] Changes to i2c-piix4.c initialisation prevent loading of sp5100_tco watchdog driver on AMD SB800 chipset Boszormenyi Zoltan <zboszor@pr.hu> - 2017-04-01 12:20 +0200
                Bug#853122: [Regression] Changes to i2c-piix4.c initialisation prevent loading of sp5100_tco watchdog driver on AMD SB800 chipset Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2017-04-01 15:40 +0200
                Bug#853122: [Regression] Changes to i2c-piix4.c initialisation prevent loading of sp5100_tco watchdog driver on AMD SB800 chipset Boszormenyi Zoltan <zboszor@pr.hu> - 2017-04-01 18:30 +0200
                Bug#853122: [Regression] Changes to i2c-piix4.c initialisation prevent loading of sp5100_tco watchdog driver on AMD SB800 chipset Boszormenyi Zoltan <zboszor@pr.hu> - 2017-04-01 18:40 +0200
                Bug#853122: [Regression] Changes to i2c-piix4.c initialisation prevent loading of sp5100_tco watchdog driver on AMD SB800 chipset Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net> - 2017-04-03 08:40 +0200
                Bug#853122: [Regression] Changes to i2c-piix4.c initialisation prevent loading of sp5100_tco watchdog driver on AMD SB800 chipset Boszormenyi Zoltan <zboszor@pr.hu> - 2017-04-03 10:10 +0200
                Bug#853122: [Regression] Changes to i2c-piix4.c initialisation prevent loading of sp5100_tco watchdog driver on AMD SB800 chipset Boszormenyi Zoltan <zboszor@pr.hu> - 2017-06-27 14:30 +0200
  Bug#853122: Same Error Carl N <carlnikolov@gmail.com> - 2017-08-31 04:40 +0200
  Bug#853122: Same error sp5100_tco: I/O address 0x0cd6 already in use Sisim Biva <sisimbiva@gmail.com> - 2017-10-02 10:20 +0200
  Bug#853122: posts bugs alain BELLEC <alain_bellec@bbox.fr> - 2017-10-02 12:30 +0200
  Bug#853122: [Regression] Changes to i2c-piix4.c initialisation prevent loading of sp5100_tco watchdog driver on AMD SB800 chipset Gyorgy Kapolnas <rty042@gmail.com> - 2017-11-22 12:30 +0100
  Bug#853122: linux-image-4.13.0-0.bpo.1-amd64: Also present at Gigabyte GA-AM1M-S2H Rainer Dorsch <ml@bokomoko.de> - 2017-12-16 21:30 +0100

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