Re: [PATCH v3] Add "shutdown" to "struct class".

From	Josh Zimmerman <joshz@google.com>
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Subject	Re: [PATCH v3] Add "shutdown" to "struct class".
Date	2017-05-18 17:30 +0200
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Are there any more changes any of you would like to see in this patch?

Thanks!
Josh


On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Winkler, Tomas <tomas.winkler@intel.com> wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jason Gunthorpe [mailto:jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com]
>> Sent: Monday, May 15, 2017 20:46
>> To: Josh Zimmerman <joshz@google.com>
>> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>; linux-
>> kernel@vger.kernel.org; Winkler, Tomas <tomas.winkler@intel.com>; Jarkko
>> Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>; tpmdd-
>> devel@lists.sourceforge.net
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Add "shutdown" to "struct class".
>>
>> On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 10:39:08AM -0700, Josh Zimmerman wrote:
>> > (Continuing thread from patch v1)
>> > > > On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 12:43:11PM +0000, Winkler, Tomas wrote:
>> > > > > > The TPM class has some common shutdown code that must be
>> > > > > > executed for all drivers. This adds some needed functionality
>> > > > > > for that
>> > > > >
>> > > > > The issue with this is, that on some platforms the only storage
>> > > > > can be eMMC and TPM is using it,. It has to be ensured that the
>> > > > > storage device won't go down before TPM2_shutdown is called.
>> > > > > And there is no direct device hierarchy to ensure an orderly
>> shutdown.
>> > > >
>> > > > Something will have to use the new device links stuff to define
>> > > > that dependency, but that seems unrelated to this patch?
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Yep, it's not directly related to this specific patch, this is more relevant
>> particularly to TPM2_shutdown.
>> >
>> > Jason, do you want me to do that in my patch on the tpmdd-devel list?
>> > If so, mind giving me a documentation pointer or two? I'm not familiar
>> > with this area.
>>
>> No.. Ordering power management events is something someone with
>> knowledge of the specific emmc platform is going to have to tackle..
>> It isn't really a core problem, platform specific code will have to setup the
>> needed device links to order power management properly..
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> eMMC is just an example, that can be other storage device (ufs, nvme) and some type of abstraction of underlying storage
> dependency would be required. I just wanted to put it on the table, not sure it has to be solved in this round.
> Tomas
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>> Jason

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[PATCH v3] Add "shutdown" to "struct class". Josh Zimmerman <joshz@google.com> - 2017-05-15 19:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v3] Add "shutdown" to "struct class". Josh Zimmerman <joshz@google.com> - 2017-05-15 19:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v3] Add "shutdown" to "struct class". Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> - 2017-05-15 19:50 +0200
      RE: [PATCH v3] Add "shutdown" to "struct class". "Winkler, Tomas" <tomas.winkler@intel.com> - 2017-05-15 22:50 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v3] Add "shutdown" to "struct class". Josh Zimmerman <joshz@google.com> - 2017-05-18 17:30 +0200

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