Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754736AbYJHFBM (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2008 01:01:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751058AbYJHFA6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2008 01:00:58 -0400 Received: from tundra.namei.org ([65.99.196.166]:40269 "EHLO tundra.namei.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751033AbYJHFA5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2008 01:00:57 -0400 Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 16:00:02 +1100 (EST) From: James Morris To: Mimi Zohar cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Christoph Hellwig , David Safford , Serge Hallyn , Rajiv Andrade , paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Rajiv Andrade Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] integrity: TPM internel kernel interface In-Reply-To: <98178f6ceb8fa8d23153c6e7f94757f406771859.1223401604.git.zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Message-ID: References: <98178f6ceb8fa8d23153c6e7f94757f406771859.1223401604.git.zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LRH 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 636 Lines: 19 On Tue, 7 Oct 2008, Mimi Zohar wrote: > Based on discussions on the lkml mailing list, the TPM should be > built in, but when it is not builtin, the internal TPM kernel > interface did not protect itself from the removal of the TPM > driver, while being used. If the TPM driver should be built in, why is there an option to make it modular? - James -- James Morris -- 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/