Re: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH] TPM: Issue TPM_STARTUP at driver load ifthe TPM has not been started

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 12:41:15PM -0500, Kent Yoder wrote:

>   I'd rather see us just track the state and do the right thing
> here. If we don't get invalid postinit if we call tpm_startup during
> tpm_tis_init/tpm_tis_i2c_init, then set a flag we switch on here.

At least on my platform it is possible for tpm_tis_init to skip the
TPM_STARTUP path I added if kexec has been used, so it is not a
reliable indicator that the platform does/does not support the TPM.

Directly checking if the TPM has been started on resume seems fool
proof to me?

Jasson
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