Re: [PATCH] tpm: Don't make vendor check required for probe

From: Jarkko Sakkinen
Date: Mon Sep 04 2023 - 14:15:11 EST


On Mon Aug 28, 2023 at 6:47 PM EEST, Dusty Mabe wrote:
>
>
> On 8/18/23 14:15, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> > The vendor check introduced by commit 554b841d4703 ("tpm: Disable RNG for
> > all AMD fTPMs") doesn't work properly on Intel fTPM. The TPM doesn't reply
> > at bootup and returns back the command code.
> >
> > As this isn't crucial for anything but AMD fTPM and AMD fTPM works, throw
> > away the error code to let Intel fTPM continue to work.
> >
>
> FWIW there is a Fedora bug where several people are reporting similar issues:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2232888
>
> Dusty

I just sent v4 with reported-by's added despite:

1. checkpatch.pl complaining about them
2. no mention of the bugzilla in the kernel documentation at least not
in the sections describing the process handling the patches

BR, Jarkko