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Date:   Fri, 15 Nov 2019 14:36:21 -0400
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
To:     Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
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        Christian Bundy <christianbundy@fraction.io>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tpm_tis: turn on TPM before calling tpm_get_timeouts
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On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 07:43:29PM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 12:56:29PM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 06:55:06PM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > > > Would it function with the timeout values set at the beginning of
> > > > tpm_tis_core_init (max values)?
> > > 
> > > tpm_get_timeouts() should be replaced with:
> > > 
> > > if (tpm_chip_start()) {
> > > 	dev_err(dev, "Could not get TPM timeouts and durations\n");
> > > 	rc = -ENODEV;
> > > 	goto out_err;
> > > }
> > > 
> > > tpm_stop_chip(chip);
> > > 
> > > tpm_get_timeouts() is called by tpm_auto_startup(). Also the function
> > > should be moved to tpm_chip.c and converted to a static function so
> > > that it won't be called from random cal sites like above.
> > 
> > Careful, the design here was to allow a driver to do only
> > get_timeouts, then additional setup work, then do auto_startup()
> > 
> > Forcing a driver to do auto_startup too early may not be good.
> 
> All drivers always do it anyway because all drivers always call
> tpm_chip_register().

But chip_register is after the driver has done it's setup and after it
may have called get_timeouts

auto_setup should not be moved to before chip_register()

Jason