linux-kernel - Re: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH] tpm: remove chip

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Message-ID: <CANc+2y523PgF_-ynp2xuor_2RUGLFhnK14F-Wf5i5hwRDmk_Fw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 24 Oct 2017 23:26:52 +0530
From:   PrasannaKumar Muralidharan <prasannatsmkumar@...il.com>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>
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Subject: Re: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH] tpm: remove chip_num parameter from
 in-kernel API

Hi Jason,

On 24 October 2017 at 23:16, Jason Gunthorpe
<jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 09:44:30PM +0530, PrasannaKumar Muralidharan wrote:
>
>> I am wondering why it is wrong. Isn't the chip id valid till it is
>> unregistered? If so the rfc is correct. Please explain, may be I am
>> missing something.
>
> The lifetime is a bit complicated, but the general rule in the kernel
> for things like this it to use pointers, not ids, and certainly not
> string ids.
>
> For that patch it could just use container_of to get the chip..
>
> Jason

hwrng requires a unique name for every device. In that patch
"tpm-rng-<chip_num>" is used. chip_num is nothing but dev->dev_num.
This way more than 1 tpm chip can be used as rng provider.
tpm_get_random uses chip_num as its parameter. This is why
chip->dev_num was used.

Is that reasoning correct?

Please feel free to correct me if I am wrong.

Thanks,
PrasannaKumar