Re: [PATCH v8 5/7] tpm: move tpm_chip definition to include/linux/tpm.h

From: Jarkko Sakkinen
Date: Thu Jan 31 2019 - 11:06:03 EST


On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 08:54:50AM +0100, Roberto Sassu wrote:
> On 1/29/2019 9:34 PM, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 04:49:08PM +0100, Roberto Sassu wrote:
> > > -enum tpm_const {
> > > - TPM_MINOR = 224, /* officially assigned */
> > > - TPM_BUFSIZE = 4096,
> > > - TPM_NUM_DEVICES = 65536,
> > > - TPM_RETRY = 50, /* 5 seconds */
> > > - TPM_NUM_EVENT_LOG_FILES = 3,
> > > -};
> >
> > Here using enum has been a bad idea in the first place, as they don't
> > relate in any meaningful way.
> >
> > Replace the definition with the following in drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h:
> >
> > #define TPM_MINOR 224 /* misc backwards compatibility */
> > #define TPM_BUFSIZE 4096
> > #define TPM_NUM_DEVICES 65536
> > #define TPM_RETRY 5 /* seconds */
>
> Is 5 correct? TPM_RETRY was 50 before.

No it isn't.

Do no take this by word, I just showed the idea...

/Jarkko