linux-kernel - Re: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] tpm_tis: Clean up force module parameter

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Date:	Thu, 3 Dec 2015 08:00:42 +0200
From:	Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>
Cc:	Martin Wilck <Martin.Wilck@...fujitsu.com>,
	tpmdd-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Uwe Kleine-König 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] tpm_tis: Clean up force module
 parameter

On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 12:11:55PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 11:27:27AM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> 
> > I'm guessing that if the driver probe order is tpm_crb,tpm_tis then
> > things work because tpm_crb will claim the device first? Otherwise
> > tpm_tis claims these things unconditionally? If the probe order is
> > reversed things become broken?
> 
> Okay, I didn't find the is_fifo before, so that make sense
> 
> But this:
> 
> > What is the address tpm_tis should be using? I see two things, it
> > either uses the x86 default address or it expects the ACPI to have a
> > MEM resource. AFAIK ACPI should never rely on hard wired addresses, so
> > I removed that code in this series. Perhaps tpm_tis should be using
> > control_area_pa ? Will ACPI ever present a struct resource? (if yes,
> > why isn't tpm_crb using one?)
> 
> Is then still a problem. On Martin's system the MSFT0101 device does
> not have a struct resource attached to it. Does any system, or is this
> just dead code?
> 
> Should the control_area_pa be used?

I guess it'd be more realiable. In my NUC the current fix works and the
people who tested it. If you supply me a fix that changes it to use that
I can test it and this will give also coverage to the people who tested
my original fix.

/Jarkko
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