Messages in this thread | | | From | "Peter Huewe" <> | Subject | Aw: Re: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH] base/platform: fix panic when probe function is NULL | Date | Tue, 1 Dec 2015 19:54:59 +0100 |
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> > >That fixes tpm_tis, but there are other ancient TPM drivers that use > > >the old, now broken way. > > > > > >So, we still need to do something here. Either fixup b8b2c7d845d5 as > > >you have proposed, remove the now broken obsolete TPM drivers, or try > > >and fix them.. > > > > How broken are they and since when?
> oops the kernel broken, since 4.4-rc1 apparently, so not released yet. damn, I was hoping MUCH longer :)
> > Mark them as obsolete , default them to No and remove them by 4.10 > > if there are no objections?
> Greg KH has been advising just to delete stuff right away. It is easy > to undelete something if someone comes around with hardware and is > willing to test
Can you point to that discussion or was it offline? I mean for staging, yes there it is clear, but for stuff that is officially "upstream", I'm not 100% sure.
Thanks, Peter
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