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

From: Jason Gunthorpe
Date: Fri Sep 02 2016 - 18:45:40 EST


On Sat, Sep 03, 2016 at 01:35:22AM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> 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.

That is because the users out side the subsystem are Doing it Wrong.

eg this:

extern int tpm_is_tpm2(u32 chip_num);

Should be:

extern int tpm_is_tpm2(struct tpm_chip *chip);

And same for all other examples.

The 'chip_num' thing is bonkers.

Jason