Re: [PATCH v1 7/8] tpm: tis-i2c: Add more compatible strings

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Tue Dec 12 2023 - 14:50:10 EST


On 12/12/23 10:51, Conor Dooley wrote:
On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 10:00:39AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 05:15:51PM +0000, Conor Dooley wrote:
On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 10:40:03AM -0600, Ninad Palsule wrote:
From: Joel Stanley <joel@xxxxxxxxx>

The NPCT75x TPM is TIS compatible. It has an I2C and SPI interface.

https://www.nuvoton.com/products/cloud-computing/security/trusted-platform-module-tpm/

Add a compatible string for it, and the generic compatible.

OpenBMC-Staging-Count: 3

Delete this from every patch that it appears from.

Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220928043957.2636877-4-joel@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ninad Palsule <ninad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_i2c.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_i2c.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_i2c.c
index a897402cc36a..9511c0d50185 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_i2c.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_i2c.c
@@ -383,6 +383,8 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(i2c, tpm_tis_i2c_id);
#ifdef CONFIG_OF
static const struct of_device_id of_tis_i2c_match[] = {
{ .compatible = "infineon,slb9673", },
+ { .compatible = "nuvoton,npct75x", },
+ { .compatible = "tcg,tpm-tis-i2c", },

What's the point of the generic compatible if you are adding the device
specific ones to the driver anyway?


$ git grep infineon,slb9673
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/trivial-devices.yaml: - infineon,slb9673

Hmm, this would then need to be moved into the new schema, out of
trivial devices.

drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_i2c.c: { .compatible = "infineon,slb9673", },
$ git grep nuvoton,npct75x
arch/arm/boot/dts/aspeed/aspeed-bmc-ibm-bonnell.dts: compatible = "nuvoton,npct75x", "tcg,tpm-tis-i2c";
arch/arm/boot/dts/aspeed/aspeed-bmc-ibm-everest.dts: compatible = "nuvoton,npct75x", "tcg,tpm-tis-i2c";
$ git grep tcg,tpm-tis-i2c
arch/arm/boot/dts/aspeed/aspeed-bmc-ibm-bonnell.dts: compatible = "nuvoton,npct75x", "tcg,tpm-tis-i2c";
arch/arm/boot/dts/aspeed/aspeed-bmc-ibm-everest.dts: compatible = "nuvoton,npct75x", "tcg,tpm-tis-i2c";
arch/arm/boot/dts/aspeed/aspeed-bmc-opp-tacoma.dts: compatible = "tcg,tpm-tis-i2c";

pog, undocumented compatibles.


Yes, I know, quite annoying. Though, to be fair, a generic "tcg,tpm-tis-i2c"
would make a lot of sense.

Note that Rob had rejected the original addition (into trivial devices)
with the argument that it is not a trivial device
(https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220605225610.GA3682221-robh@xxxxxxxxxx/).

It looks like at least the generic entry is needed, given that it is quite
likely that there is hardware out there using it. Other than that, this
makes me wonder: Is there some official guideline describing if and when
to use (only) generic devicetree compatible entries and when specific ones
may / should / have to be used ? I suspect the answer to your question might
simply be "because we did not know better", and it might be helpful to be
able to say "please see XXX for details".

To me using generic compatibles is okay when there is another mechanism
to identify the device. This patch would make more sense if the addition
of nuvoton,npct75x was omitted and the dt-binding had

properties:
compatible:
items:
- enum:
- infineon,slb9673
- nuvoton,npct75x
- const: tcg,tpm-tis-i2c

And whenever new i2c tpms showed up the device specific compatible was
added to the bindings and the driver had only* the generic compatible
static const struct of_device_id of_tis_i2c_match[] = {
{ .compatible = "infineon,slb9673", },
{ .compatible = "tcg,tpm-tis-i2c", },
};

* well, and the existing one since that cannot be removed.

That would be perfectly fine with me. All I personally care about is to get
"tcg,tpm-tis-i2c" added to the kernel source so I can start testing the
code in qemu.

Thanks,
Guenter