Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] tpm_crb: Use the common ACPI definition of struct acpi_tpm2

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 07:09:06PM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 11:23:14AM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > include/acpi/actbl2.h is the proper place for these definitions
> > and the needed TPM2 ones have been there since
> > commit 413d4a6defe0 ("ACPICA: Update TPM2 ACPI table")
> > 
> > This also drops a couple of le32_to_cpu's for members of this table,
> > the existing swapping was not done consistently, and the definitions
> > in actbl2.h do not have endianness annotations, declaring that no swap
> > is required. Note that the TPM ACPI spec defines all of these
> > values to be little endian, both in crb2 and ppi.
> 
> I think this patch mixes two separate changes to the driver: removing
> l32_to_cpu's and moving to common headers and that is not right.

No, it is only one change: Move to the common kernel way of working
with these structures.

> Even if they should be removed I think what you say about actbl2.h is
> wrong. Annotations are probably missing because it is imported code (I'm
> happy to be corrected if this is not the case).

Edit the comments if you like.

Annotations are missing because BE is not supported at all, nothing to
do with imported code.

Jason
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