linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 00/11] mfd: macsmc: add rtc, hwmon and hid subdevices

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Message-ID: <20251106135556.GP8064@google.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2025 13:55:56 +0000
From: Lee Jones <lee@...nel.org>
To: James Calligeros <jcalligeros99@...il.com>
Cc: Sven Peter <sven@...nel.org>, Janne Grunau <j@...nau.net>,
	Alyssa Rosenzweig <alyssa@...enzweig.io>,
	Neal Gompa <neal@...pa.dev>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@...nel.org>,
	Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>,
	Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
	Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.com>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, asahi@...ts.linux.dev,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-rtc@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, Mark Kettenis <kettenis@...nbsd.org>,
	Hector Martin <marcan@...can.st>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/11] mfd: macsmc: add rtc, hwmon and hid subdevices

On Sat, 25 Oct 2025, James Calligeros wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> This series adds support for the remaining SMC subdevices. These are the
> RTC, hwmon, and HID devices. They are being submitted together as the RTC
> and hwmon drivers both require changes to the SMC DT schema.
> 
> The RTC driver is responsible for getting and setting the system clock,
> and requires an NVMEM cell. This series replaces Sven's original RTC driver
> submission [1].
> 
> The hwmon function is an interesting one. While each Apple Silicon device
> exposes pretty similar sets of sensors, these all seem to be paired to
> different SMC keys in the firmware interface. This is true even when the
> sensors are on the SoC. For example, an M1 MacBook Pro will use different
> keys to access the LITTLE core temperature sensors to an M1 Mac mini. This
> necessitates describing which keys correspond to which sensors for each
> device individually, and populating the hwmon structs at runtime. We do
> this with a node in the device tree. This series includes only the keys
> for sensors which we know to be common to all devices. The SMC is also
> responsible for monitoring and controlling fan speeds on systems with fans,
> which we expose via the hwmon driver.
> 
> The SMC also handles the hardware power button and lid switch. Power
> button presses and lid opening/closing are emitted as HID events, so we
> add an input subdevice to handle them.
> 
> Since there are no real dependencies between the components of this series,
> it should be fine for each subsystem to take the relevant patches through
> their trees. The mfd one-liners should be taken in order to avoid trivial
> conflicts.

The MFD parts look okay.  Let me know when the other drivers have been
accepted and I'll apply them all.

-- 
Lee Jones [李琼斯]