From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758318AbZIOSya (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:54:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757949AbZIOSyZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:54:25 -0400 Received: from BACHE.ECE.CMU.EDU ([128.2.129.23]:35270 "EHLO bache.ece.cmu.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753031AbZIOSyZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:54:25 -0400 Message-ID: <4AAFE25E.3040307@cmu.edu> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:52:14 -0400 From: "Jonathan M. McCune" User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090706) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mimi Zohar CC: Jason Gunthorpe , Rajiv Andrade , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jbeulich@novell.com, jmorris@namei.org, tpmdd-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, m.selhorst@sirrix.com, Andrew Morton , Roland.Dreier@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH] TPM: Fixup pubek sysfs file References: <20090904045231.GW4973@obsidianresearch.com> <20090904140325.c592289a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090904212316.GZ406@obsidianresearch.com> <17754_1252731784_n8C533ou010944_20090911162837.GC17677@kroah.com> <4AAE84EA.8010109@ <20090914194626.GF25981@obsidianresearch.com> <1252983983.3745.67.camel@dyn9002018117.watson.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <1252983983.3745.67.camel@dyn9002018117.watson.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > >>> Although it may be worth discussing whether this functionality should be >>> moved from the driver into IMA. > > Are you really suggesting moving the tpm_pcr_read()/extend() to IMA? > Why? > I mentioned this since I'm not aware of anything else in the kernel that uses this functionality. But this may also be a case of "it ain't broke, so don't fix it." Cheers, -Jon