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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
To: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	tpmdd-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 08/11] tpm: Driver for supporting multiple emulated TPMs
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 15:12:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160310221220.GB9735@obsidianresearch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160310163915.GA4863@intel.com>

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 06:39:15PM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> Some might want to use this in a way that the created virtual device
> is not closed when /dev/vtpmx is closed.

No, there is no reason to create an API like that - TPM's are
stateful, one cannot close the server side and re-connect and expect
things to continue to work.

Jason

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-03-10 22:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1457545170-30120-1-git-send-email-stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-03-09 17:39 ` Stefan Berger
2016-03-09 18:01   ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-03-10  2:34     ` Stefan Berger
2016-03-10  2:57       ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-03-10 17:38         ` Stefan Berger
2016-03-10 14:15   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2016-03-10 16:39   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2016-03-10 17:30     ` Stefan Berger
2016-03-11  9:50       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2016-03-10 17:32     ` Stefan Berger
2016-03-11 10:20       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2016-03-10 22:12     ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2016-03-09 17:39 ` [PATCH v6 09/11] tpm: Initialize TPM and get durations and timeouts Stefan Berger
2016-03-09 17:39 ` [PATCH v6 10/11] tpm: Add documentation for the tpm_vtpm device driver Stefan Berger

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