Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Feb 2016 10:30:44 -0700 | From | Jerry Snitselaar <> | Subject | Re: [tpmdd-devel] [GIT PULL] remaining tpmdd fixes for Linux 4.5 |
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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
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