linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 4/6] tpm: of: Make of-tree specific function commonly available

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Date:   Mon, 11 Jul 2022 18:04:41 -0400
From:   Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Stefan Berger <stefanb@...ux.ibm.com>, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Cc:     nayna@...ux.ibm.com, nasastry@...ibm.com, mpe@...erman.id.au,
        Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@...nel.org>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 4/6] tpm: of: Make of-tree specific function commonly
 available

Hi Stefan,

On Thu, 2022-07-07 at 13:20 -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
> -       /*
> -        * For both vtpm/tpm, firmware has log addr and log size in big
> -        * endian format. But in case of vtpm, there is a method called
> -        * sml-handover which is run during kernel init even before
> -        * device tree is setup. This sml-handover function takes care
> -        * of endianness and writes to sml-base and sml-size in little
> -        * endian format. For this reason, vtpm doesn't need conversion
> -        * but physical tpm needs the conversion.
> -        */

This comment is dropped.  Perhaps not in such detail, but shouldn't a
comment or function description exist in the new function.

Otherwise,
Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.ibm.com>

thanks,

Mimi