From: Sven Peter <sven@kernel.org>
To: Atharva Tiwari <atharvatiwarilinuxdev@gmail.com>
Cc: Janne Grunau <j@jannau.net>, Neal Gompa <neal@gompa.dev>,
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>,
Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>,
asahi@lists.linux.dev, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] macsmc: check for missing SMC to avoid crash
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2025 20:56:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bd991c1e-69b0-47aa-9373-274f92fce76d@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251009183735.1288-1-atharvatiwarilinuxdev@gmail.com>
On 09.10.25 20:37, Atharva Tiwari wrote:
> Users might manually install these drivers
> without the core SMC device, causing
Installing isn't enough; that's not gonna trigger probing any of these
devices.
Did you run into this issue?
Hitting this should require deliberately creating a broken dts file and
booting with that one. But if I'm creating a broken dts file I can
easily crash the kernel in various other ways.
Sven
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-09 18:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-09 18:37 [PATCH] macsmc: check for missing SMC to avoid crash Atharva Tiwari
2025-10-09 18:56 ` Sven Peter [this message]
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