linux-kernel - question about setting TPM_CHIP_FLAG_IRQ in tpm_tis_core

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Date:   Mon, 11 Nov 2019 20:36:37 -0700
From:   Jerry Snitselaar <jsnitsel@...hat.com>
To:     Stefan Berger <stefanb@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: question about setting TPM_CHIP_FLAG_IRQ in tpm_tis_core_init

Question about 1ea32c83c699 ("tpm_tis_core: Set TPM_CHIP_FLAG_IRQ before probing for interrupts").
Doesn't tpm_tis_send set this flag, and setting it here in tpm_tis_core_init short circuits what
tpm_tis_send was doing before? There is a bug report of an interrupt storm from a tpm on a t490s laptop
with the Fedora 31 kernel (5.3), and I'm wondering if this change could cause that. Before they got
the warning about interrupts not working, and using polling instead.