Re: [PATCH] TPM: Fixup pubek sysfs file

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:02:24 -0700
Roland Dreier <rdreier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
>  > Algorithm: 00 00 00 01
>  > Encscheme: 00 03
>  > Sigscheme: 00 01
>  > Parameters: 00 00 08 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00
>  > Modulus length: 256
> 
> No argument that this fix is an improvement, but what happened to the
> "one value per file" rule for sysfs??

We goofed.  This one snuck through.

It's one of the reasons why I recommend that people cite examples of
the sysfs/procfs output in changelogs.  These things are part of the
kernel ABI and once they go in we cannot change them so we have to get
them right first time.
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