Re: [PATCH v2 5/6] tpm: add driver for cr50 on SPI

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 10:22:20AM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> Quoting Jason Gunthorpe (2019-07-17 10:12:16)
> > On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 10:05:52AM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > > 
> > > Yes. The space savings comes from having the extra module 'cr50.ko' that
> > > holds almost nothing at all when the two drivers are modules.
> > 
> > I'm not sure it is an actual savings, there is alot of minimum
> > overhead and alignment to have a module in the first place.
> > 
> 
> Yeah. I'm pretty sure that's why it's a bool and not a tristate for this
> symbol. A module has overhead that is not necessary for these little
> helpers.

Linking driver stuff like that to the kernel is pretty hacky, IMHO

Jason