Re: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH v11 0/4] Multi-instance vTPM proxy driver

[Stefan Berger]

On 04/26/2016 05:28 AM, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 07:54:27PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 01:26:12PM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
> > > The following series of patches implements a multi-instance vTPM
> > > proxy driver that can dynamically create TPM 'server' and client device
> > > pairs.
> > >
> > > Using an ioctl on the provided /dev/vtpmx, a client-side vTPM device
> > > and a server side file descriptor is created. The file descriptor must
> > > be passed to a TPM emulator. The device driver will initialize the
> > > emulated TPM using TPM 1.2 or TPM 2 startup commands and it will read
> > > the command durations from the device in case of a TPM 1.2. The choice
> > > of emulated TPM device (1.2 or 2) must be provided with a flag in
> > > the ioctl.
> > >
> > > The patches are based on the tip of a recent checkout of Jarkko's tree
> > > (master branch).
> > I've applied this series to my master branch. These patches have been
> > baking long enough in my opinion that they could be merged to next and
> > therefore find their way into Linux 4.7
> >
> > Stefan, I would still require your Tested-by for the first patch before
> > merging because it is not as mature as other patches are.
> Now I have augmented Tested-by's to relevant patches and added my
> Signed-off-by's. I plan to merge this to the next branch tomorrow.

Please don't forget Jason's patch for tpm_tis.c that fixes the device 
used in the devm_request_irq/devm_free_irq calls. The rmmod of tpm_tis 
only work correctly in interrupt mode when that patch is applied.

   Stefan