Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] Add TPM 1.2 host device passthrough interface

[malc <av1474@comtv.ru>]

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On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, Blue Swirl wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Andreas Niederl
> <andreas.niederl@iaik.tugraz.at> wrote:
> > This implementation is based on the TPM 1.2 interface for virtualized TPM
> > devices from the Xen-4.0.0 ioemu-qemu-xen fork.
> >
> > A separate thread is used for I/O to the host TPM device because the Linux TPM
> > driver does not allow for non-blocking I/O.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Andreas Niederl <andreas.niederl@iaik.tugraz.at>
> 
> In general, please read CODING_STYLE.
> 
> Ideally, the host and guest devices should be decoupled so that the
> guest visible device should still be functional without host TPM
> support.
> 
> > ---

[..snip..]

> > +static inline uint32_t tpm_get_size_from_buffer(const uint8_t *buffer)
> > +{
> > +    uint32_t len = (buffer[4] << 8) + buffer[5];
> > +    return len;
> > +}
> > +
> > +static inline uint8_t locality_from_addr(target_phys_addr_t addr)
> > +{
> > +    return (uint8_t)((addr >> 12) & 0x7);
> > +}
> > +
> > +
> > +static void die2(int err, const char *what)
> > +{
> > +    fprintf(stderr, "%s failed: %s\n", what, strerror(err));
> > +    abort();
> > +}
> > +
> > +static void die(const char *what)
> > +{
> > +    die2(errno, what);
> > +}
> 
> There's hw_error() and errx(), no need to reinvent the wheel.

Since it looks as if this code was based on mine, i take issues with
your analysis.

Firstly hw_error is for hardware errors and does not print message
corresponding to errno code and lastly there is no errx[1]

[..snip..]

[1] err(3):
    CONFORMING TO
       These functions are non-standard BSD extensions.

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