Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Aug 2007 02:26:04 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] - TPM device driver layer (tpm.c|h) |
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On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 10:46:55AM +0200, Richard MUSIL wrote: > Dear all, > > I am currently writing virtual TPM device driver. This driver exposes > itself and behaves like regular TPM device (i.e. uses TPM layer which is > already present in kernel), but instead of talking to hardware it talks > to user space.
Heh, I like the idea, I can imagine what it could be used for :)
> What I present below is rather quickfix with least impact on other TPM > parts (drivers). The patch uses device->remove callback (of > platform_device device) and reroutes this to itself. In this > callback it eventually calls vendor callback and finally kfrees all > memory resources allocated on its own.
It looks sane to me, nice fixup.
thanks,
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