Jarkko Sakkinen <[email protected]> wrote on 03/11/2016
05:43:04 AM:
>
> Hi Stefan,
>
> This is something I would like discuss and get other points of views.
>
> The thing that I would like to rise is the name of this new subsystem.
> The keyword 'vTPM' is already heavily referenced in contexts for more
> "full stack" solution of virtualization [1].
>
> If I look at this new functionality it is essentially a proxy and not
> much else, isn't it? You can apply for Linux containers but alone it is
> proxy tool. With the current name it is too easy to confuse it with
> existing solutions.
Fine by me. I can rename it to tpm_proxy.c and reference to it as the
virtual TPM proxy driver or TPM emulator proxy driver, which I think
describes it well. It's not a 'Proxy TPM'.
The title of the cover letter for the patches would then be
Multi-instance vTPM proxy driver
Stefan
>
> Maybe we should call it Proxy TPM instead (I'm open for other name
> suggestions)?
>
> [1] http://domino.research.ibm.com/library/cyberdig.nsf/
>
1e4115aea78b6e7c85256b360066f0d4/a0163fff5b1a61fe85257178004eee39?OpenDocument
>
> /Jarkko
>
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