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Re: [PATCH v3 2/7] tpm_tis: Disable interrupt auto probing on a per-device basis

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On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 07:20:40PM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 11:23:15AM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > Instead of clearing the global interrupts flag when any device
> > does not have an interrupt just pass -1 through tpm_info.irq.
> > 
> > The only thing that asks for autoprobing is the force=1 path.
> 
> Sorry for my ignorance but what does this patch help? Why interrupts
> flag is not enough?

It is wrong for a driver's probe function to change global state, and
very wrong to change a module option.

> > Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
> > Tested-by: Wilck, Martin <martin.wilck@ts.fujitsu.com>
> > Tested-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
> 
> Did I already give Tested-by's for this series (I did for those that
> went into v4.5 pull request)?

You said you tested the crb stuff, which is this series... Did you
test something else?

Jason
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Re: [PATCH v3 2/7] tpm_tis: Disable interrupt auto probing on a  per-device basis Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-01-03 18:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v3 2/7] tpm_tis: Disable interrupt auto probing on a  per-device basis Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> - 2016-01-04 19:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v3 2/7] tpm_tis: Disable interrupt auto probing on a  per-device basis Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-01-04 19:40 +0100

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