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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] tpm, tpm_tis: use acpi_driver instead of pnp_driver
On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 06:30:25PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 08:07:10PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > Migrate to struct acpi_driver in order to get out of 7 character
> > limitation for the HID.
>
> Are we guaranteed that there are no old systems reporting these devices
> via pnpbios rather than acpi?

Right. I think it would make sense to be conservative and use
acpi_driver only for MSFT0101 because at least I don't know answer
to this question. It would be a risk to take these fixes to the stable
kernels othwerwise.

> --
> Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

/Jarkko


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