Re: [PATCH v8 08/10] tpm: Proxy driver for supporting multiple emulated TPMs
From: Jarkko Sakkinen
Date: Fri Mar 18 2016 - 09:08:14 EST
On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 10:52:00AM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 01:45:20PM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
> > On 03/16/2016 04:42 PM, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > >On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 06:54:38PM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
> > >>+
> > >>+/* above flags */
> > >>+#define VTPM_PROXY_FLAG_TPM2 1 /* emulator is TPM 2 */
> > >>+
> > >>+/* all supported flags */
> > >>+#define VTPM_PROXY_FLAGS_ALL (VTPM_PROXY_FLAG_TPM2)
> > >This can be moved inside the .c-file?
> >
> > I can move that.
> >
> > >
> > >>+
> > >>+#define VTPM_PROXY_MAGIC 0xa1
> > >>+
> > >>+#define VTPM_PROXY_IOC_NEW_DEV _IOW(VTPM_PROXY_MAGIC, 0x00, \
> > >>+ struct vtpm_proxy_new_dev)
> > >Could we simply replace these four lines with one line:
> > >
> > >#deifne VTPM_PROXY_IOC_NEW_DEV _IOW('t', 0x00, struct vtpm_proxy_new_dev);
> >
> > Does this make it better?
> >
> > >
> > >I changed the magic but does it matter?
> >
> > I would keep the magic at '0xa1'. The documentation is written to '0xa1' now
> > and seems to be good just as any other.
>
> OK. Works for me. Keep the ioctl definition as it is.
>
> Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I can move the constant. You don't have to send a new patch version
> anymore. I start keeping this patch in my master but will not merge it
> to next before 4.6-rc5 so at the moment it would be scheduled for 4.7.
> Does this sound good for you?
>
> Further improvemnts should be sent as separate fixup patches.
Applied to git://git.infradead.org/users/jjs/linux-tpmdd.git.
/Jarkko