linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tpm: Add major

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Message-Id: <1572032562.4532.74.camel@linux.ibm.com>
Date:   Fri, 25 Oct 2019 15:42:42 -0400
From:   Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@....de>,
        linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tpm: Add major_version sysfs file

On Fri, 2019-10-25 at 16:32 -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 11:45:22AM -0700, Jerry Snitselaar wrote:
> > On Fri Oct 25 19, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> > Yes, there should be an entry added to
> > Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-tpm.
> > I will fix that up and the TCG not being uppercase in a v2.
> > 
> > Should Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-tpm updated in
> > some way to reflect that those are all links under device
> > now and not actually there.
> 
> Applications should not use the link version, that path was a
> mistake. The link is for compatability with old userspace.

Are you suggesting that userspace has to search for the device info? 
That makes no sense.

Mimi