Re: [PATCH v9 1/6] x86/tdx: Add TDX Guest attestation interface driver

[Borislav Petkov]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 02:19:44PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> This actually shows up to apps, though.

Blergh.

> They'll actually be opening /dev/tdx. When the other driver comes
> along, they'll all need to change to /dev/tdx-guest. That seems a bit
> unkind to those poor app developers.

So do you really wanna call the attestation driver "tdx-guest"?

But that's not really an attestation driver - there's tdx/tdx.c which is
all the guest code and there's an attestation "driver" in it.

So maybe this "attestation driver" thing is just an additional "ability"
of the tdx-guest driver.

Might wanna take out your cristal ball and think what you wanna call it
now so that it doesn't change because...

> BTW, do we consider these kernel names be part of the ABI? Seems like
> we should.

... yap, that.

If apps open this, then this is an ABI and cast in stone.

I'd say.

Which makes my initial suggestion of calling this whole guest
functionality a "tdx" driver not such a bad idea... Depends on
whether there will be a split at all or it'll continue gaining more
functionality.

Or so.

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