No worries. Just fix them and I will include to my next pull request!

/Jarkko

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 03:44:55PM -0700, Josh Zimmerman wrote:
> Sorry about the mess. I'm a bit swamped today, but I'll work on
> cleaning up the patch formatting & commit message and fix the
> compilation problem later today or tomorrow. (It did build on my
> checkout of the tpmdd branch... guess I didn't pull in some important
> change.)
> Josh
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 3:38 PM, Jarkko Sakkinen
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 12:21:22AM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 12:12:20AM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> >> > On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 09:51:22AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> >> > > On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 01:26:47AM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > > Feels weird that you have to call framework functions like that in 
> >> > > > the
> >> > > > driver. You must have brilliant reason to do so and that should be 
> >> > > > very
> >> > > > well documented in the code. This is terrible...
> >> > >
> >> > > This was all discussed on the list. It the way these callbacks work,
> >> > > the higher levels in the callback stack call the lower levels, this
> >> > > allows each level the place the next level's callback properly, eg do
> >> > > things before/after as necessary.
> >> > >
> >> > > Jason
> >> >
> >> > I tried to look up for discussion from the patchwork. These had appeared
> >> > in v6. I guess I have to backtrack the discussions from my maidir
> >> > because I honestly don't understand why class shutdown would have to
> >> > call bus callback explicitly. There's nothing in the commit message
> >> > about this nor  is there any comment in the code.
> >> >
> >> > This must be fairly recent development that I've missed?
> >> >
> >> > /Jarkko
> >>
> >> Found it:
> >>
> >> "Looking at this closer, now you definately have to change the TPM
> >> patch to call through to the other shutdown methods. We can say
> >> current TPM drivers have no driver->shutdown, but we cannot be sure
> >> about the bus->shutdown, so may as well call both from tpm's
> >> class->shutdown.
> >>
> >> I would say this should be done after the tpm2_shutdown completes as
> >> lower level shutdowns could remove register access.
> >>
> >> Jason"
> >>
> >> And makes sense.
> >>
> >> This patch is a NAK for two reasons:
> >>
> >> 1. No comment explaining this.
> >> 2. Patches are broken and they are in wrong order and cover letter is
> >>    missing
> >>
> >> /Jarkko
> >
> > I *tried* to apply them myself after sending this in order to be helpful
> > but they have compilation errors:
> >
> > drivers/char/tpm/tpm-chip.c: In function ‘tpm_shutdown’:
> > drivers/char/tpm/tpm-chip.c:162:23: error: ‘TPM_SU_CLEAR’ undeclared (first 
> > use in this function)
> >    tpm2_shutdown(chip, TPM_SU_CLEAR);
> >                        ^~~~~~~~~~~~
> > drivers/char/tpm/tpm-chip.c:162:23: note: each undeclared identifier is 
> > reported only once for each function it appears in
> > drivers/char/tpm/tpm-chip.c: In function ‘tpm_chip_alloc’:
> > drivers/char/tpm/tpm-chip.c:214:17: error: ‘chip->dev.class’ is a pointer; 
> > did you mean to use ‘->’?
> >   chip->dev.class.shutdown = tpm_shutdown;
> >
> > /Jarkko

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