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Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 15:09:30 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Josh Zimmerman <joshz@google.com>
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        Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Add "shutdown" to "struct class".
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On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 10:34:38AM -0700, Josh Zimmerman wrote:
> The TPM class has some common shutdown code that must be executed for
> all drivers. This adds some needed functionality for that.
> 
> Usage example: 'tpm: Issue a TPM2_Shutdown for TPM2 devices.'
> (see https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9724919/ for v2).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Josh Zimmerman <joshz@google.com>

Given that the tpm code is going to need this, I recommend someone take
it through that tree:

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Otherwise, if you want me to take it, I can, but I doubt you want it in
my driver-core tree as that will not get merged to Linus until 4.13-rc1.

thanks,

greg k-h