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Message-ID: <20170525170616.uvj2ql7faqnwzwoe@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 10:06:16 -0700
From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>
To: Josh Zimmerman <joshz@...gle.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>,
tpmdd-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Add "shutdown" to "struct class".
On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 08:40:28AM -0700, Josh Zimmerman wrote:
> Thanks, Greg.
>
> Greg, Jarkko: Do either of you you have any objections to me
> backporting these changes to 4.4 and 4.9? I'd like to make sure that
> at least the couple most recent LTS kernels have this patch. (I don't
> care so much about 4.1 as it'll be EOL'd this September, according to
> https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html, but I can backport it
> to there as well if desired.)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Josh
Nope.
/Jarkko
>
> On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 6:09 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 10:34:38AM -0700, Josh Zimmerman wrote:
> > > The TPM class has some common shutdown code that must be executed for
> > > all drivers. This adds some needed functionality for that.
> > >
> > > Usage example: 'tpm: Issue a TPM2_Shutdown for TPM2 devices.'
> > > (see https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9724919/ for v2).
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Josh Zimmerman <joshz@...gle.com>
> >
> > Given that the tpm code is going to need this, I recommend someone take
> > it through that tree:
> >
> > Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> >
> > Otherwise, if you want me to take it, I can, but I doubt you want it in
> > my driver-core tree as that will not get merged to Linus until 4.13-rc1.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
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