linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tpm: don't destroy chip device prematurely

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Date:   Sat, 8 Oct 2016 13:47:38 +0300
From:   Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>
To:     "Winkler, Tomas" <tomas.winkler@...el.com>
Cc:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>,
        "tpmdd-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net" 
        <tpmdd-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tpm: don't destroy chip device prematurely

On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 02:24:59PM +0000, Winkler, Tomas wrote:
> So  here I'm to say I'm sorry for misleading this, after all the
> doubts I got back to debugging and traces.  One thing for a reason
> moving the device_del, had really made the problem go away,  but the
> real  problem was unbalance runtime_pm PUT/GET from the tpm_crb probe
> function.  I will post the fixed patch, of course, this one should be
> dropped.  In any case,  and this is not just to keep my ego up, that
> calling to the tom stack with unutilized dev is not healthy and we
> should look for that. 

Great. I'll test the fix once it's available.

/Jarkko