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Thu, 29 Oct 2026 07:39:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from at-Standard-PC-Q35-ICH9-2009 ([106.202.115.216]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id a92af1059eb24-1a75cdd21c3sm15396439c88.4.2026.10.29.07.39.29 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Thu, 29 Oct 2026 07:39:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Atharva Tiwari To: k@chaosmail.tech Cc: alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com, andy@kernel.org, asahi@lists.linux.dev, atharvatiwarilinuxdev@gmail.com, bhelgaas@google.com, bp@alien8.de, brgl@kernel.org, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, dlechner@baylibre.com, dmitry.kasatkin@gmail.com, eric.snowberg@oracle.com, griffin@kroah.com, hansg@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com, j@jannau.net, jarkko@kernel.org, jic23@kernel.org, jmorris@namei.org, lee@kernel.org, lenb@kernel.org, linusw@kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org, linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org, linux@roeck-us.net, mfd@lists.linux.dev, mingo@redhat.com, neal@gompa.dev, nuno.sa@analog.com, paul@paul-moore.com, pavel@kernel.org, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, rafael@kernel.org, roberto.sassu@huawei.com, serge@hallyn.com, sre@kernel.org, sven@kernel.org, tglx@kernel.org, wim@linux-watchdog.org, x86@kernel.org, zohar@linux.ibm.com Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 14/14] mfd/macsmc: add ioctl to access smc keys Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2026 10:39:26 -0400 Message-ID: <20261029143926.1246-1-atharvatiwarilinuxdev@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.55.0 In-Reply-To: <525E5B4D-A947-4567-9FCD-5FFF2CA8B161@chaosmail.tech> References: <525E5B4D-A947-4567-9FCD-5FFF2CA8B161@chaosmail.tech> X-Mailing-List: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Owner: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > This should either be dropped from the series, or be hidden behind a > `melt_my_mac`-style module flag, or switched to a whitelist approach. > We do not know what keys will be introduced in new smc firmware > versions, and there are already keys that should not be randomly poked > at. 1. The patch is required, atleast on intel macs, as without writing GPU and CPU states to smc, the system gives PROCHOT signal under small load , and heats up a lot. 2. the smc dosent expose keys of nature that can physically damage the system it only exposes power/volt data, and the most you can poke is reboot keys and gpu/cpu p-states. 3. If a person is randomly touching keys, Its their problem and not ours. 4. There are a lot of things that can mess the system way more and permanently than smc (undervolting for example), but they are not safe guarded, why should this be then?