Re: [PATCH v3] Add "shutdown" to "struct class".

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu May 25 2017 - 09:09:48 EST


On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 10:34:38AM -0700, Josh Zimmerman wrote:
> The TPM class has some common shutdown code that must be executed for
> all drivers. This adds some needed functionality for that.
>
> Usage example: 'tpm: Issue a TPM2_Shutdown for TPM2 devices.'
> (see https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9724919/ for v2).
>
> Signed-off-by: Josh Zimmerman <joshz@xxxxxxxxxx>

Given that the tpm code is going to need this, I recommend someone take
it through that tree:

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Otherwise, if you want me to take it, I can, but I doubt you want it in
my driver-core tree as that will not get merged to Linus until 4.13-rc1.

thanks,

greg k-h