Re: [PATCH] TPM TIS device driver locality request

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:32:51 +0100 Marcel Selhorst <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> during the initialization of the TPM TIS driver, the necessary
> locality has to be requested earlier in the init-process. Depending on
> the used TPM chip, this leads to wrong information.
> For example: Lenovo X61s with Atmel TPM:
> 
> tpm_tis 00:0a: 1.2 TPM (device-id 0xFFFF, rev-id 255)
> 
> But correct is:
> 
> tpm_tis 00:0c: 1.2 TPM (device-id 0x3203, rev-id 9)
> 
> This short patch fixes this issue.

Is this bug sufficiently serious to warrant inclusion of the fix in
2.6.24?  2.6.23.x?

It looks like it's just a cosmetic thing, but I'd like to check...

> Signed-Off-by Marcel Selhorst <[email protected]>

Signed-off-by:, please.

> ---
> --- tpm_tis.c.orig      2007-11-19 00:21:09.000000000 +0100
> +++ tpm_tis.c   2007-11-19 00:21:23.000000000 +0100

`patch -p1' form, please.  This should have been

--- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis.c
+++ a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis.c

> @@ -450,6 +450,11 @@ static int tpm_tis_init(struct device *d
>                 goto out_err;
>         }
> 
> +       if (request_locality(chip, 0) != 0) {
> +               rc = -ENODEV;
> +               goto out_err;
> +       }
> +

Your email client is converting tabs to spaces.

http://mbligh.org/linuxdocs/Email/Clients/Thunderbird has help for this.

Thanks.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

[Index of Archives]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Photo]     [Stuff]     [Gimp]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Video 4 Linux]     [Linux for the blind]     [Linux Resources]
  Powered by Linux