[PATCH] macsmc: check for missing SMC to avoid crash

Sven Peter sven at kernel.org
Thu Oct 9 11:56:47 PDT 2025


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




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