linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 06/10] tpm: fix: move sysfs attributes to the correct place.

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Message-ID: <20141118092911.GA17459@intel.com>
Date:	Tue, 18 Nov 2014 11:29:11 +0200
From:	Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@....de>, Ashley Lai <ashley@...leylai.com>,
	Marcel Selhorst <tpmdd@...horst.net>
Cc:	tpmdd-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	josh.triplett@...el.com, christophe.ricard@...il.com,
	jason.gunthorpe@...idianresearch.com, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
	trousers-tech@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 06/10] tpm: fix: move sysfs attributes to the correct
 place.

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 03:45:09PM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> The sysfs attributes of the TPM device were created to the platform
> device directory that owns the character device instead of placing
> them correctly to the directory of the character device,
> 
> They were also created in a racy way so that character device might
> become visible before sysfs attributes become available.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>

For this patch there are at least these open items:

- Paths in Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-tpm should be updated.
- I moved attributes described in the documentation to the character
  device sysfs-directory from platform device sysfs directory. I don't
  believe this is a mentionable breakage because they weren't machine
  readable anyway. This should be however explicitly stated in the
  commit message.
- What should be done with PPI sysfs attributes? They are also in wrong
  place.
- What should be done with the BIOS log? They are also in wrong place.

I think this patch is really the key change to sort out before pulling the
patch set to the maintainer tree. 

/Jarkko
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