linux-kernel - Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] add tpm_xenu.ko: Xen Virtual TPM frontend driver

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Date:	Thu, 8 Nov 2012 08:31:45 -0500
From:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
To:	Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@...rix.com>
Cc:	Matthew Fioravante <matthew.fioravante@...apl.edu>,
	"jeremy@...p.org" <jeremy@...p.org>,
	"xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com" <xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"mail@...jiv.net" <mail@...jiv.net>,
	"tpmdd-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net" 
	<tpmdd-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	Kent Yoder <key@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] add tpm_xenu.ko: Xen Virtual TPM frontend
 driver

On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 09:46:16AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > >>+typedef struct tpmif_tx_request tpmif_tx_request_t;
> > > >   checkpatch warned on this new typedef - please run through checkpatch
> > > >and fix up that stuff.
> > > tpmif.h has a couple of typedefs which do trigger checkpatch
> > > warnings. However it looks like the paradigm for xen is to have
> > > these interface/io/<dev>if.h files and all of them have typedefs. I
> > > think in this case the typedef should probably stay.
> > > 
> > > Konrad your thoughts here?
> > 
> > Rip them out plea
> 
> This is somewhere that Linux coding style and Xen coding style differ,
> so the typedefs should be removed from the Linux copy of these
> interfaces to match the Linux coding style, but they should stay in the
> Xen side canonical copy though.

Yes. Sorry for not making that clear.
> 
> Ian.
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