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From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
To: Alexander Steffen <Alexander.Steffen@infineon.com>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>,
	Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de>,
	Andrey Pronin <apronin@chromium.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org,
	Duncan Laurie <dlaurie@chromium.org>,
	Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Guenter Roeck <groeck@chromium.org>,
	Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 4/6] tpm: tpm_tis_spi: Support cr50 devices
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2020 14:00:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200204120048.GA28552@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9064d7e2-d0ae-0cf0-294f-a795da336a6f@infineon.com>

On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 08:15:49AM +0100, Alexander Steffen wrote:
> The scripts are effectively using modprobe/rmmod/etc. and those need the
> name. modprobe can be fixed by defining an alias, but this does not work for
> rmmod. Many other things also depend on the name, e.g. module blacklisting
> or the output of lsmod, where people might now get confused by the
> difference between "tpm_tis_spi_mod" and "tpm_tis_i2c". Also, there are many
> tutorials out there, that explicitly tell users to run something like
> "modprobe tpm_tis_spi", which won't work anymore now.
> 
> So, if there is a good reason to break compatibility, I'm fine with that.
> But in this case, isn't there some way to achieve the desired functionality
> without changing the name? Even if it is a little more complex than the
> three-line change above, that would probably be worth it.

Nope, you're right. I'll work out a fix for this and
add you as reported-by.

/Jarkko

  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-04 12:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-20 18:32 [PATCH v7 0/6] tpm: Add driver for cr50 Stephen Boyd
2019-09-20 18:32 ` [PATCH v7 1/6] dt-bindings: tpm: document properties " Stephen Boyd
2019-09-20 18:32 ` [PATCH v7 2/6] tpm: Add a flag to indicate TPM power is managed by firmware Stephen Boyd
2019-09-20 18:32 ` [PATCH v7 3/6] tpm: tpm_tis_spi: Introduce a flow control callback Stephen Boyd
2019-09-20 18:32 ` [PATCH v7 4/6] tpm: tpm_tis_spi: Support cr50 devices Stephen Boyd
2019-10-06 22:32   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-02-03  9:13   ` Alexander Steffen
2020-02-04  0:37     ` Stephen Boyd
2020-02-04  7:15       ` Alexander Steffen
2020-02-04 12:00         ` Jarkko Sakkinen [this message]
2019-09-20 18:32 ` [PATCH v7 5/6] tpm: tpm_tis_spi: Cleanup includes Stephen Boyd
2019-10-06 22:34   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-09-20 18:32 ` [PATCH v7 6/6] tpm: tpm_tis_spi: Drop THIS_MODULE usage from driver struct Stephen Boyd
2019-10-06 22:35   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-10-06 22:39 ` [PATCH v7 0/6] tpm: Add driver for cr50 Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-10-11  7:50   ` Heiko Stübner
2019-10-14 19:56     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-10-15 20:23       ` Heiko Stuebner
2019-10-16 15:27         ` Jarkko Sakkinen

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