From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Richard MUSIL <richard.musil@st.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tpmdd-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] - TPM device driver layer (tpm.c|h)
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 02:26:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070823092604.GA6057@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46CD497F.8030207@st.com>
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 10:46:55AM +0200, Richard MUSIL wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am currently writing virtual TPM device driver. This driver exposes
> itself and behaves like regular TPM device (i.e. uses TPM layer which is
> already present in kernel), but instead of talking to hardware it talks
> to user space.
Heh, I like the idea, I can imagine what it could be used for :)
> What I present below is rather quickfix with least impact on other TPM
> parts (drivers). The patch uses device->remove callback (of
> platform_device device) and reroutes this to itself. In this
> callback it eventually calls vendor callback and finally kfrees all
> memory resources allocated on its own.
It looks sane to me, nice fixup.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-23 9:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-23 8:46 [PATCH] - TPM device driver layer (tpm.c|h) Richard MUSIL
2007-08-23 9:26 ` Greg KH [this message]
2007-09-25 13:14 ` [PATCH] - TPM device driver layer (tpm.c|h) - repost Richard MUSIL
2007-09-25 14:11 ` Greg KH
2007-09-28 8:08 ` [tpmdd-devel] " Marcel Selhorst
2007-11-20 6:37 ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-20 12:32 ` [PATCH] - TPM device driver layer (tpm.c|h) - 2nd repost Richard MUSIL
2007-11-20 12:53 ` Richard MUSIL
2007-11-20 20:06 ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-18 23:13 ` [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH] - TPM device driver layer (tpm.c|h) Marcel Selhorst
2007-11-19 5:09 ` Greg KH
2007-11-19 6:42 ` Marcel Selhorst
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