Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] tpm_tis: Clean up force module parameter

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 11:33:51PM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:

> I went through the patches and didn't see anything that would shock me
> enough not to apply the patches in the current if they also work when
> tested *but* are these release critical for Linux v4.4?
> 
> I got a bit confused about the discussion that was going on about "where
> to fix the probe" crash whether or not both it should be fixed in both
> places.

I'm also confused by that..

It sounds like force=1 is broken in 4.4 right now - do we care? Should
we fix this by using Martin's patch?

These changes are complex enough they really shouldn't go into 4.4
unless absolutely necessary.

> Could you possibly make these apply on top of security/next and
> re-submit if needed?

It isn't trivial to reorder all 10 patches to do this, I'd like to
know we need to do this for sure first. Uwe?

Jason
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