Re: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH v2] tpm: enable PPI for TPM 2.0

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Apr 22 2015 - 14:10:34 EST


On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 11:22:43AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 07:38:55PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > > > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kernfs_remove_by_name_ns);
> > > >
> > > > ??
> > > > I don't see this being called
> > >
> > > My bad, it is clutter in the patch file. I'll remove it.
> >
> > In fact this is needed because the driver uses kernfs_remove_by_name,
> > which is an inline function that uses kernfs_remove_by_name_ns
> > internally.
>
> Hum, that probably needs a sysfs_ analog - the paired removal
> function for sysfs_link_group_to_kobj ?

Be very careful using that sysfs function, you shouldn't be doing that
within a driver subsystem unless you know what you are doing :)

greg k-h
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