linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v12 RESEND 0/4] generic TEE subsystem

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Message-ID: <20161028181914.xkse5orwwp42dvj3@sirena.org.uk>
Date:   Fri, 28 Oct 2016 19:19:14 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     "Andrew F. Davis" <afd@...com>
Cc:     Jens Wiklander <jens.wiklander@...aro.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>, valentin.manea@...wei.com,
        jean-michel.delorme@...com, emmanuel.michel@...com,
        javier@...igon.com,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Michal Simek <michal.simek@...inx.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Nishanth Menon <nm@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 RESEND 0/4] generic TEE subsystem

On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 10:43:24AM -0500, Andrew F. Davis wrote:

> Do we see this as a chicken and egg situation, or is there any harm
> beyond the pains of supporting an out-of-tree driver for a while, to
> wait until we have at least one other TEE to add to this subsystem
> before merging?

We haven't been overburneded with TEE vendors wanting to get their
driver code into mainline - do we have any reasonable prospect of other
TEE vendors with an interest in mainline turning up in any kind of
reasonable timeframe?

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