Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751748Ab3JDRVr (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Oct 2013 13:21:47 -0400 Received: from e39.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.160]:46102 "EHLO e39.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751161Ab3JDRVq (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Oct 2013 13:21:46 -0400 Message-ID: <524EF921.8030806@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 12:21:37 -0500 From: Joel Schopp User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jason Gunthorpe , Ashley D Lai CC: Leonidas Da Silva Barbosa , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rajiv Andrade , tpmdd-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Peter H?we , Sirrix AG , Teddy Reed Subject: Re: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH 02/13] tpm atmel: Call request_region with the correct base References: <1379960083-8942-1-git-send-email-jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> <1379960083-8942-3-git-send-email-jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> <201310020000.13490.PeterHuewe@gmx.de> <1380759074.20801.12.camel@buffalo> <20131003043647.GA1463@obsidianresearch.com> In-Reply-To: <20131003043647.GA1463@obsidianresearch.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TM-AS-MML: No X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 13100417-9332-0000-0000-000001A68C5D Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1406 Lines: 37 On 10/02/2013 11:36 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 07:11:14PM -0500, Ashley D Lai wrote: > >>> I somewhat have the feeling that we should maybe begin to deprecate >>> the vendor specific 1.1 tpms... > >> I agree. If we have a machine to test and it fails then we know we don't >> have a user for this. > > Is this driver is only used on IBM systems? If so, will IBM provide > support for those systems on RHEL7? If not the driver can probably > safely be dropped. > > The trouble with these old drivers is that they don't follow modern > conventions (there are several little bugs at least) and nobody can > test them to safely fix them. > > If you do find hardware, we can at least take a solid run at sprucing > up the testable drivers which should give them more life.. > > Jason We don't have any plans to support 1.1 tpms in any new major distribution releases. I am in support of deprecating 1.1 tpms and just supporting 1.2 and 2.0 going forward. This is the direction we are taking with TrouSerS as well for what it's worth. So that's at least one major user you won't see complain about missing tpm 1.1 support. -Joel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/