Re: [tpmdd-devel] [GIT PULL] remaining tpmdd fixes for Linux 4.5

[Jerry Snitselaar]

On Mon Feb 22 16, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 12:56:53PM +1100, James Morris wrote:
> > On Sat, 20 Feb 2016, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> >
> > > Hi James,
> > >
> > > I'm sorry for the late pull request for 4.5. The reason for this was
> > > the latency in my previous one. I picked with care the absolutely
> > > critical fixes so that we can make a sound tpmdd release.
> > >
> > > I really hope you can still pick these as one of them is absolutely
> > > critical to get authorization policy sealing API right (kernel keeps
> > > it finger out of user space created objects).
> >
> > Pushed to next for more testing and review.
> >
> > This really is getting too late in the development cycle for so many
> > fixes.  It means the code was not ready to be merged in the first place.
>
> I fully agree what you're saying. I'll learn the lesson here and take
> factors more conservative attitude from now on. No excuses. I'm sorry
> about this.
>
> Partly the reason for recent increase in regressions has been
> increased real-world use of TPM2 and thus issues have started to pop
> up that's a lame excuse anyway.

Would it be worthwhile to have a tpm branch that gets pulled by -next
directly so changes will have already been going through the paces in
-next prior to the pull reuqest to James?

snits