Re: [PATCH 08/10] devicetree: Add Trusted Computing Group to vendor-prefix.txt

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On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 3:21 PM, Jason Gunthorpe
<jgunthorpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 03:06:00PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 11:23:04PM +0200, Christophe Ricard wrote:
>> > Add missing vendor to vendor-prefix.txt.
>> >
>> > Trusted Computing Group design common specifications for
>> > TPM (Trusted Platform Module) vendors.
>> > TCG designates a TPM answering to a public specification.
>>
>> Not sure this should be a vendor prefix. Does TCG actually make h/w?
>
> They define the common multi-vendor register API, similar to AHCI.
>
> I would imagine compatible tags like
>
>  compatible = 'winbond,xxxx','tcg,tis_iomap';
>
> Since there actually is a legal entity administering the spec (unlike
> AHCI?) 'tgc,' seems like a better prefix to me than 'generic-' ?

Well, Intel "manages" the AHCI and EHCI specs. All the generic strings
are somewhat useless in the end IMO.

As long as you aren't planning to use it alone, it is fine.

Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>

Rob
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