linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] TPM: ACPI/PNP dependency removal

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Date:	Wed, 5 May 2010 10:01:36 +1000 (EST)
From:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
To:	Rajiv Andrade <srajiv@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] TPM: ACPI/PNP dependency removal

On Tue, 4 May 2010, Rajiv Andrade wrote:

> This patch pushes the ACPI dependency into the device driver code
> itself. Now, even without ACPI/PNP enabled, the device can be registered
> using the TIS specified memory space. This will however result in the
> lack of access to the bios event log, being the only implication of such
> ACPI removal.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rajiv Andrade <srajiv@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>


Applied to
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6#next

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