On many motherboards, for an unknown reason, the thermal sensor seems
to be disabled and will return a constant temperature value of 36.5
degrees Celsius. Don't bind to the device in that case, so that we
don't report this bogus value to userspace.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Cc: Romain Dolbeau <romain@dolbeau.org>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
 {
        int err;
        struct device *hwmon_dev;
+       u32 tstimer;
+       s8 tsfsc;
 
        err = pci_enable_device(pdev);
        if (err) {
                return err;
        }
 
+       pci_read_config_byte(pdev, REG_TSFSC, &tsfsc);
+       pci_read_config_dword(pdev, REG_TSTIMER, &tstimer);
+       if (tsfsc == 0x7F && tstimer == 0x07D30D40) {
+               dev_warn(&pdev->dev, "Sensor seems to be disabled\n");
+               return -ENODEV;
+       }
+
        hwmon_dev = devm_hwmon_device_register_with_groups(&pdev->dev,
                                                           "intel5500", NULL,
                                                           i5500_temp_groups);