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Re: [PATCH v6 08/11] tpm: Driver for supporting multiple emulated TPMs

From Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v6 08/11] tpm: Driver for supporting multiple emulated TPMs
Date 2016-03-10 23:20 +0100
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On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 06:39:15PM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> Some might want to use this in a way that the created virtual device
> is not closed when /dev/vtpmx is closed.

No, there is no reason to create an API like that - TPM's are
stateful, one cannot close the server side and re-connect and expect
things to continue to work.

Jason

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[PATCH v6 08/11] tpm: Driver for supporting multiple emulated TPMs Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-03-09 18:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v6 08/11] tpm: Driver for supporting multiple emulated TPMs Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-03-09 19:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v6 08/11] tpm: Driver for supporting multiple emulated  TPMs Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-03-10 03:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v6 08/11] tpm: Driver for supporting multiple emulated TPMs Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-03-10 04:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v6 08/11] tpm: Driver for supporting multiple emulated  TPMs Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-03-10 18:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v6 08/11] tpm: Driver for supporting multiple emulated  TPMs Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-03-10 15:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v6 08/11] tpm: Driver for supporting multiple emulated  TPMs Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-03-10 17:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v6 08/11] tpm: Driver for supporting multiple emulated  TPMs Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-03-10 18:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v6 08/11] tpm: Driver for supporting multiple emulated  TPMs Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-03-11 11:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v6 08/11] tpm: Driver for supporting multiple emulated  TPMs Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-03-10 18:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v6 08/11] tpm: Driver for supporting multiple emulated  TPMs Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-03-11 11:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v6 08/11] tpm: Driver for supporting multiple emulated  TPMs Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> - 2016-03-10 23:20 +0100

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