From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755029AbZJ0N6W (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:58:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754888AbZJ0N6W (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:58:22 -0400 Received: from mail-iw0-f178.google.com ([209.85.223.178]:45033 "EHLO mail-iw0-f178.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754353AbZJ0N6V (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:58:21 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1256563579-11014-2-git-send-email-zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <1256563579-11014-1-git-send-email-zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1256563579-11014-2-git-send-email-zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:58:25 -0400 Message-ID: <7e0fb38c0910270658v153480fdt5ced717feca76c17@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] ima: remove ACPI dependency From: Eric Paris To: Mimi Zohar Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, James Morris , Rajiv Andrade , Jean-Christophe Dubois , David Safford , Mimi Zohar , Stable Kernel Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Mimi Zohar wrote: > Remove ACPI dependency on systems without a TPM enabled. I'm confused why you need ACPI at all. The TPM code doesn't require ACPI (I wish it did but Alan Cox Nak'd that patch). I don't see acpi anywhere in the ima code. What's the problem we are solving? Why does IMA care about ACPI at all? And aren't you really just dropping the build requirement on TCG_TPM? Is that a great idea? -Eric