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Message-ID: <20160715033530.GB27104@apronin>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 20:35:30 -0700
From: Andrey Pronin <apronin@...omium.org>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>,
Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@....de>,
Marcel Selhorst <tpmdd@...horst.net>,
tpmdd-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
groeck@...omium.org, smbarber@...omium.org, dianders@...omium.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] tpm: support driver-specific sysfs attrs in
tpm_tis_core
On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 09:23:27PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 06:51:36PM -0700, Andrey Pronin wrote:
> > - WARN_ON(chip->groups_cnt != 0);
>
> Nope.
>
> > - const struct attribute_group *groups[3];
> > + /* up to 4 attribute groups:
> > + * - driver-specific
> > + * - common TPM1.2 and TPM2.0
> > + * - TPM1.2/2.0-specific
> > + * - ppi
> > + */
> > + const struct attribute_group *groups[5];
>
> The prior patch needed to have groups[4], every patch much work.
>
> > + if (priv->phy_ops->attr_group)
> > + chip->groups[chip->groups_cnt++] = priv->phy_ops->attr_group;
>
> I am really not excited about having driver specific sysfs
> files.
>
> What is the justification for this?
>
> Jason
Justification: give access to vendor-specific properties that are
specific to a particular chip and its registers.
Andrey
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