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From: Ashley Lai <adlai@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
Cc: tpmdd-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Leonidas Da Silva Barbosa <leosilva@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rajiv Andrade <mail@srajiv.net>,
	Sirrix AG <tpmdd@sirrix.com>
Subject: Re: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH 06/13] tpm: Remove redundant dev_set_drvdata
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 21:14:04 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1380939244.23565.6.camel@fishsauce> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1379960083-8942-7-git-send-email-jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>

On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 12:14 -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> TPM drivers should not call dev_set_drvdata (or aliases), only the core
> code is allowed to call dev_set_drvdata, and it does it during
> tpm_register_hardware.
> 
> These extra sets are harmless, but are an anti-pattern that many drivers
> have copied.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>

> diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_spi_stm_st33.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_spi_stm_st33.c
> index 8d3e8e2..f5e3cd6 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_spi_stm_st33.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_spi_stm_st33.c
> @@ -779,7 +779,6 @@ tpm_st33_spi_probe(struct spi_device *dev)
>  	tpm_get_timeouts(chip);
> 
>  	/* attach chip datas to client */
Looks good except this comment needs to be removed.  Since this driver
is not merged, please remove this line in the new driver.

> -	spi_set_drvdata(dev, chip);
>  	platform_data->bchipf = false;
> 

Acked-by: Ashley Lai <adlai@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Thanks,
--Ashley Lai



  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-05  2:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-23 18:14 [PATCH 00/13] TPM cleanup Jason Gunthorpe
2013-09-23 18:14 ` [PATCH 01/13] tpm: ibmvtpm: Use %zd formatting for size_t format arguments Jason Gunthorpe
2013-10-01 21:58   ` Peter Hüwe
2013-10-02 19:37   ` [tpmdd-devel] " Ashley D Lai
2013-09-23 18:14 ` [PATCH 02/13] tpm atmel: Call request_region with the correct base Jason Gunthorpe
     [not found]   ` <201310020000.13490.PeterHuewe@gmx.de>
2013-10-03  0:11     ` [tpmdd-devel] " Ashley D Lai
2013-10-03  4:36       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-10-04 17:21         ` Joel Schopp
2013-09-23 18:14 ` [PATCH 03/13] tpm: xen-tpmfront: Fix default durations Jason Gunthorpe
2013-09-23 18:51   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-09-23 18:57     ` Daniel De Graaf
2013-09-23 18:14 ` [PATCH 04/13] tpm: Store devname in the tpm_chip Jason Gunthorpe
2013-10-04 15:57   ` [tpmdd-devel] " Ashley Lai
2013-09-23 18:14 ` [PATCH 05/13] tpm: Use container_of to locate the tpm_chip in tpm_open Jason Gunthorpe
2013-10-05  1:47   ` [tpmdd-devel] " Ashley Lai
2013-09-23 18:14 ` [PATCH 06/13] tpm: Remove redundant dev_set_drvdata Jason Gunthorpe
2013-10-05  2:14   ` Ashley Lai [this message]
2013-09-23 18:14 ` [PATCH 07/13] tpm: Remove tpm_show_caps_1_2 Jason Gunthorpe
     [not found]   ` <201310020009.22952.PeterHuewe@gmx.de>
2013-10-01 22:21     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-10-01 22:38       ` [tpmdd-devel] " Peter Hüwe
2013-09-23 18:14 ` [PATCH 08/13] tpm: Pull everything related to /dev/tpmX into tpm-dev.c Jason Gunthorpe
2013-10-01 22:52   ` Peter Hüwe
2013-10-01 22:57     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-10-01 23:14       ` Peter Hüwe
2013-10-01 23:23         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-10-03  5:05         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-10-04 15:50           ` TPM.ko module rename (was tpm: Pull everything related to /dev/tpmX into tpm-dev.c) Peter Hüwe
2013-10-04 16:28             ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-10-04 16:45               ` Ashley Lai
2013-09-23 18:14 ` [PATCH 09/13] tpm: Pull everything related to sysfs into tpm-sysfs.c Jason Gunthorpe
2013-09-23 18:54   ` [tpmdd-devel] " Daniel De Graaf
2013-09-23 19:36     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-09-23 20:20       ` Daniel De Graaf
2013-09-23 20:42         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-09-23 22:00           ` Daniel De Graaf
2013-09-23 22:23             ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-09-24 14:28               ` Daniel De Graaf
2013-09-30 18:10                 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-09-30 20:36                   ` Daniel De Graaf
2013-09-30 21:20                     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-09-30 22:09                     ` Joel Schopp
2013-10-04 17:08                       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-10-04 19:17                         ` Stefan Berger
2013-10-04 22:02                           ` Peter Hüwe
2013-10-07 15:06                           ` Daniel De Graaf
2013-10-08  9:15                         ` AW: [TrouSerS-tech] " Fuchs, Andreas
2013-10-09 17:38                           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-10-10  7:42                             ` AW: " Fuchs, Andreas
2013-10-10 16:50                               ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-09-23 18:14 ` [PATCH 10/13] tpm: Create a tpm_class_ops structure and use it in the drivers Jason Gunthorpe
2013-09-23 18:14 ` [PATCH 11/13] tpm: Use the ops structure instead of a copy in tpm_vendor_specific Jason Gunthorpe
2013-09-23 18:14 ` [PATCH 12/13] tpm: st33: Remove chip->data_buffer access from this driver Jason Gunthorpe
2013-09-23 18:14 ` [PATCH 13/13] tpm: Make tpm-dev allocate a per-file structure Jason Gunthorpe
2013-09-23 21:27 ` [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH 00/13] TPM cleanup Joel Schopp

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