Re: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH] tpm: do not suspend/resume if power stays on

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 02:39:09PM -0800, Sonny Rao wrote:

> > We recently added global suspend/resume callbacks to the TPM
> > core. Those call backs do not power off the TPM, they just prepare its
> > internal state to loose power to the chip. Skipping that process on
> > hardware that does not power-off the TPM makes sense to me.
> >
> > But, Sonny, perhaps this should be a global flag in tpm_chip, not a
> > per-interface-driver override?
> 
> It's a property of the board design not the chip -- maybe I'm
> misunderstanding?

I mean do not add the code to handle this to tpm_i2c_infineon.c but in
the common chip code instead.

tpm_i2c_infineon.c should only parse DT properties that are relavent
to the bus that delivers commands to the TPM, things that apply to how
a TPM chip operates should be handled in the core code because they
apply to any command transport bus.

Jason