[PATCH] firmware: smccc: default ARM_SMCCC_SOC_ID to disabled

[Will Deacon]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 10:24:06PM -0800, Satya Durga Srinivasu Prabhala wrote:
> The ARM SMCCC SoC ID driver is currently enabled by default and publishes
> SMCCC-provided SoC identification into /sys/bus/soc/devices/socX/*.
> 
> On platforms where a vendor SoC driver already exposes widely-consumed
> attributes (e.g. Qualcomm socinfo [1]), enabling the SMCCC driver changes
> the format of /sys/devices/soc0/soc_id (e.g. "jep106:XXYY:ZZZZ" instead
> of a vendor logical ID like "519") and breaks existing userspace consumers.

Isn't the fundamental issue here that you have multiple callers of
soc_device_register() and your userspace is only looking at soc0?

Will