[U-Boot] [PATCH v1 1/2] tpm: Rename generic_lpc_tpm to tpm_tis_lpc

[Che-liang Chiou]

On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 4:35 AM, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:
> Dear Che-Liang Chiou,
>
> In message <1323852504-19954-2-git-send-email-clchiou at chromium.org> you wrote:
>> The new name is more aligned with Linux kernel's naming of TPM driver.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Peter Huewe <peter.huewe at infineon.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Che-Liang Chiou <clchiou at chromium.org>
>> Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org>
>> ---
>> Changes in v1:
>> - Update s-o-b Peter Huewe's email address
>>
>>  Makefile                                         |    2 +-
>>  README                                           |    5 ++++-
>>  drivers/tpm/Makefile                             |    2 +-
>>  drivers/tpm/{generic_lpc_tpm.c => tpm_tis_lpc.c} |    0
>>  4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>  rename drivers/tpm/{generic_lpc_tpm.c => tpm_tis_lpc.c} (100%)
>
> Does such a change actually make sense?
>
> Should we not rather remove all this dead code again?
>
> Until today there are no users for this code in mainline, and no
> patches have been submitted that intend to use it.

Chrome/Chromium OS uses TPM for its secure boot. So I would say it is
quite a lot of usage on the critical path of booting.

The code that uses TPM did not send to the mainline because the
mainline did not have a TPM driver until very recently.

And, I am still figuring out how to submit the TPM user code. I guess
it would be better to organize it in a command-line toolkit so that it
can be interleaved in between other commands. What do you think?

> I think we should scrap this in the next release.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>
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