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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
To: Ashley Lai <adlai@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: tpmdd-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH 1/5 v2] tpm: Pull everything related to /dev/tpmX into tpm-dev.c
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 17:12:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131117001236.GA22861@obsidianresearch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1384640335.7518.12.camel@fishsauce>

On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 04:18:55PM -0600, Ashley Lai wrote:
> Nice clean up!!! The code looks much more clean after removing the
> duplicated code in all drivers.  Thanks.

> > +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-dev.c
> > + * Copyright (C) 2013 Obsidian Reearch Corp
> 
> Typo Research?

Yes, thanks :)
 
> > + * Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
> > + *
> 
> > +
> > +int tpm_dev_add_device(struct tpm_chip *chip)
> > +{
> 
> > +	rc = misc_register(&chip->vendor.miscdev);
> > +	if (rc) {
> > +		chip->vendor.miscdev.name = NULL;
> > +		dev_warn(chip->dev,
> 
> Any reason why we use dev_warn here instead of dev_err?

Indeed, it was dev_err before I moved it. 

Hmm, it has been so long.. I think an earlier draft had
tpm_dev_add_device return void (like in other subsystems), so warn
made more sense. However I eventually changed it to propogate errors,
and didn't catch the flip.

Lets put it back.

Thanks!
Jason

  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-17  0:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-04  3:38 tpm: Remainder of earlier clean up Jason Gunthorpe
2013-11-04  3:38 ` [PATCH 1/5 v2] tpm: Pull everything related to /dev/tpmX into tpm-dev.c Jason Gunthorpe
2013-11-16 22:18   ` [tpmdd-devel] " Ashley Lai
2013-11-17  0:12     ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2013-11-04  3:38 ` [PATCH 2/5 v2] tpm: Pull everything related to sysfs into tpm-sysfs.c Jason Gunthorpe
2013-11-16 23:53   ` [tpmdd-devel] " Ashley Lai
2013-11-17  0:24     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-11-04  3:38 ` [PATCH 3/5 v2] tpm: Create a tpm_class_ops structure and use it in the drivers Jason Gunthorpe
2013-11-17  0:57   ` [tpmdd-devel] " Ashley Lai
2013-11-04  3:38 ` [PATCH 4/5 v2] tpm: Use the ops structure instead of a copy in tpm_vendor_specific Jason Gunthorpe
2013-11-17  1:09   ` [tpmdd-devel] " Ashley Lai
2013-11-04  3:38 ` [PATCH 5/5 v2] tpm: Make tpm-dev allocate a per-file structure Jason Gunthorpe
2013-11-17  2:01   ` [tpmdd-devel] " Ashley Lai
2013-11-08 16:54 ` [tpmdd-devel] tpm: Remainder of earlier clean up Ashley Lai
2013-11-08 17:23   ` Aw: " Peter Huewe
2013-12-07 13:21 ` Peter Hüwe
2013-12-10  1:33   ` Jason Gunthorpe

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