[PATCH] tpm: add support for partial reads

Tadeusz Struk tadeusz.struk at intel.com
Mon Jul 23 20:53:14 UTC 2018


On 07/23/2018 01:19 PM, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> In this case I do not have any major evidence of any major benefit *and*
> the change breaks the ABI.

As I said before - this does not break the ABI.
As for the benefits - it help user space in how they implement the receive
path. Application does not need to provide a 4K buffer for every read even
if the response is, for instance 8 bytes long.
Thanks,
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Tadeusz
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