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From: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
To: Qiaowei Ren <qiaowei.ren@intel.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org" 
	<platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org>,
	Xiaoyan Zhang <xiaoyan.zhang@intel.com>,
	Gang Wei <gang.wei@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] driver: add TXT driver in kernel
Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 02:32:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1367980339.2425.7.camel@x230> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1367938519-840-2-git-send-email-qiaowei.ren@intel.com>

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On Tue, 2013-05-07 at 22:55 +0800, Qiaowei Ren wrote:
> TXT driver is expected to be a better tool to access below resources:
> TXT config space, TXT log and SMX parameter.

Please explain what these things are in the commit log, the config help
and the comment at the top of the driver - it'll make things easier for
people later.

> +         To compile this driver as a module, choose M here; the module will be
> +         called txt.

That's an awfully generic name. intel_txt would be better.

> + * This module is expected to be a better tool to access below resources

Expected to be or is? :)

> + * Data is currently found below

You're adding it to ABI, so it shouldn't just be current - are you
planning on moving it at any point? Is this functionality that should be
under securityfs instead?

> +	txt_pdev = platform_device_register_simple(DEV_NAME, -1, NULL, 0);

This will register even if there's no TXT support on the platform,
right? Is there no mechanism for determining whether a platform has TXT
support before registering a device?

> +module_init(txt_sysfs_init);
> +module_exit(txt_sysfs_exit);

And you've got no module aliases, so this will never be autoloaded. How
does the OS know that the platform implements TXT?

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-08  2:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-07 14:55 [PATCH 0/4] Intel TXT driver Qiaowei Ren
2013-05-07 14:55 ` [PATCH 1/4] driver: add TXT driver in kernel Qiaowei Ren
2013-05-08  2:32   ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2013-05-10  3:38     ` Ren, Qiaowei
2013-05-07 14:55 ` [PATCH 2/4] driver: provide sysfs interfaces to access TXT config space Qiaowei Ren
2013-05-08  2:44   ` Matthew Garrett
2013-05-07 14:55 ` [PATCH 3/4] driver: provide sysfs interfaces to access TXT log Qiaowei Ren
2013-05-08  5:16   ` Matthew Garrett
2013-05-09  8:05     ` Ren, Qiaowei
2013-05-09 12:02       ` Matthew Garrett
2013-05-10  1:50         ` Ren, Qiaowei
2013-05-07 14:55 ` [PATCH 4/4] driver: provide sysfs interfaces to access SMX parameter Qiaowei Ren
2013-05-08  5:24   ` Matthew Garrett
2013-05-10  7:05     ` Ren, Qiaowei
2013-05-10 13:07       ` Matthew Garrett
2013-05-11  0:01         ` Ren, Qiaowei
2013-05-08  2:28 ` [PATCH 0/4] Intel TXT driver Matthew Garrett
2013-05-09  8:19   ` Ren, Qiaowei
2013-05-09 12:02     ` Matthew Garrett
2013-05-10  2:20       ` Ren, Qiaowei

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