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Date:   Sun, 27 Oct 2019 20:01:08 -0300
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
To:     Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
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        Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>,
        Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] tpm: Add major_version sysfs file
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On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 03:42:42PM -0400, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> On Fri, 2019-10-25 at 16:32 -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 11:45:22AM -0700, Jerry Snitselaar wrote:
> > > On Fri Oct 25 19, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> > > Yes, there should be an entry added to
> > > Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-tpm.
> > > I will fix that up and the TCG not being uppercase in a v2.
> > > 
> > > Should Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-tpm updated in
> > > some way to reflect that those are all links under device
> > > now and not actually there.
> > 
> > Applications should not use the link version, that path was a
> > mistake. The link is for compatability with old userspace.
> 
> Are you suggesting that userspace has to search for the device info? 
> That makes no sense.

Why would it have to search?

Jason