Re: [PATCH RFC] stubdom: Change vTPM shared page ABI

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 05:22:59PM -0500, Matthew Fioravante wrote:
> On 11/28/2012 03:46 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> >On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:04:06AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> >>On Tue, 2012-11-20 at 16:16 +0000, Fioravante, Matthew E. wrote:
> >>>This was something I've been wanting to do for a while so I'm very
> >>>happy you went ahead and fixed it yourself. Once you submit the linux
> >>>version I'll test it on my system.
> >>>
> >>>Acked by: Matthew Fioravante <matthew.fioravante@jhuapl.edu>
> >>Do we need to synchronise with anything else (Linux drivers?) or I can I
> >>just throw this into the tree once it is done?
> >>
> >>Are we hanging any existing users of the tpm stuff out to dry? Could we
> >>get a feature-protocol-v2 flag in xenstore so users at least get an
> >>error message from either the front or backend to give a hint why it
> >>isn't working?
> >We could cop out and just name this new driver differently. Then
> >we would not have to deal with the older ones.
> I've already done that with my patch on the linux mailing list. The
> old frontend driver name was tpm_xenu.ko, the new one is
> xen-tpmfront.ko.

I meant the XenBus directory name. It is 'vtpm' - if it was called
'vtpm2' we would avoid the "older" drivers from even seeing this one.
> >
> >>>  void send_response(tpmcmd_t* cmd, tpmif_t* tpmif)  {
> >>>-   tpmif_tx_request_t* tx;
> >>>-   int offset;
> >>>-   int i;
> >>>-   uint32_t domid;
> >>>-   int tocopy;
> >>>+   vtpm_shared_page_t* shr;
> >>>+   unsigned int offset;
> >>>     int flags;
> >>>+#ifdef TPMBACK_PRINT_DEBUG
> >>>+int i;
> >>>+#endif
> >>Dodgy indentation? (I saw a bunch of these)
> >>
> >>>- * Copyright (c) 2005, IBM Corporation
> >>>- *
> >>>- * Author: Stefan Berger, stefanb@us.ibm.com
> >>>- * Grant table support: Mahadevan Gomathisankaran
> >>Did you really remove everything these guys wrote?
> >>
> >>>- * This code has been derived from tools/libxc/xen/io/netif.h
> >>>- *
> >>>- * Copyright (c) 2003-2004, Keir Fraser
> >>I guess I can buy this bit no longer being true given that you reworked
> >>the whole protocol.
> >>
> >>Ian
> >>
> >>
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> >>
> 
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