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Re: [PATCH] tpm: move struct tpm_class_ops to drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h

From Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] tpm: move struct tpm_class_ops to drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h
Date 2016-09-03 00:40 +0200
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On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 04:11:22PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 03, 2016 at 12:48:03AM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > The struct tpm_class_ops is not used outside the TPM driver. Thus,
> > it can be safely move to drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h.
> 
> No, this is the wrong direction.
> 
> The goal is to make things more like other subsystems, so we should be
> moving struct tpm_chip into the public header, and that requires ops
> to be in the public header.
> 
> This is why I put ops here in the first place.

I'm OK with it as long as you explain why this is necessary. I see no
use for them outside the TPM subsystem.

> Jason

/Jarkko

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[PATCH] tpm: move struct tpm_class_ops to drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-09-02 23:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] tpm: move struct tpm_class_ops to drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> - 2016-09-03 00:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] tpm: move struct tpm_class_ops to drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-09-03 00:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] tpm: move struct tpm_class_ops to drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> - 2016-09-03 00:50 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] tpm: move struct tpm_class_ops to drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-09-03 08:30 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] tpm: move struct tpm_class_ops to drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-09-03 08:30 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] tpm: move struct tpm_class_ops to drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> - 2016-09-04 22:20 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] tpm: move struct tpm_class_ops to drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-09-05 07:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] tpm: move struct tpm_class_ops to drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> - 2016-09-05 19:50 +0200

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