Re: [PATCH v3 2/7] tpm_tis: Disable interrupt auto probing on a per-device basis

From: Jarkko Sakkinen
Date: Mon Jan 04 2016 - 13:32:59 EST


On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 11:24:42AM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 07:20:40PM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 11:23:15AM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > Instead of clearing the global interrupts flag when any device
> > > does not have an interrupt just pass -1 through tpm_info.irq.
> > >
> > > The only thing that asks for autoprobing is the force=1 path.
> >
> > Sorry for my ignorance but what does this patch help? Why interrupts
> > flag is not enough?
>
> It is wrong for a driver's probe function to change global state, and
> very wrong to change a module option.

I disagree about global state in some sense but module options should
stay static. That's much better argument.

> > > Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Tested-by: Wilck, Martin <martin.wilck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Tested-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Did I already give Tested-by's for this series (I did for those that
> > went into v4.5 pull request)?
>
> You said you tested the crb stuff, which is this series... Did you
> test something else?

Checked my emails. Right I did run my tests for this (both with FIFO
and CRB driver). It was bit "stormy" before Christmas with all kinds
of small patches so I wasn't sure.

Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Jason

/Jarkko
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