Re: [tpmdd-devel] TPM drivers support and Linux Integrity Module for 2.6.30

From: dds (â)
Date: Wed Jul 01 2009 - 01:14:02 EST


Hi Andy, what do your patches do?

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Andy Isaacson<adi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 01:02:27PM -0300, Rajiv Andrade wrote:
>> Yep, sorry. Two options:
>>
>> 1- Inside that check, if got an error when in that particular
>> tpm_getcap() stacked call, consider that it might be this iTPM, and
>> bypass it just to get the value from the chip (would happen only once) -
>> Would work, but it's odd.
>>
>> 2- Forget manufacturer_id and base the decision on the PNP_ID as david
>> suggested. I previously considered it but since it would end up in
>> modifying tpm_tis_init() prototype (struct device * to struct pnp_dev *)
>> and then wouldn't work when loading as a module with force option on, so
>> I moved to the manufacturer_id approach.
>>
>> I'll get back to #2 meanwhile and post the patch, seems not hard to
>> accomplish though..
>
> I've got a set of patches that seem to resolve my iTPM woes.  I've
> mostly tested on T400 but I also tried X200.
>
> I'll send the patches as a separate thread (unfortunately I can't get
> git-send-email 1.6.3.1 to set a in-reply-to header on 0/5 without also
> breaking threading on x/5.)
>
> -andy
>
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