While you still have to work on this, could you name the function as
tpm_class_shutdown() to better claarify its purpose? Otherwise, things
start to look a bit confusing. Thanks.

/Jarkko

On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 05:05:41PM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> 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
> > <jarkko.sakki...@linux.intel.com> 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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