[PATCH] tpm: allow TCPA log area to be empty

Jarkko Sakkinen jarkko.sakkinen at linux.intel.com
Fri Mar 16 12:55:25 UTC 2018


On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 09:02:32AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 06:16:37PM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > TCPA log are can be empty when the TPM is disabled. This commit changes the
> > behavior of tpm_read_log_acpi() to return successfully in this case.
> 
> The commit should explain why we'd want this..
> 
> eg Why does it matter to create the extra sysfs files to report an empty
> log?
> 
> Jason

The initialization of the driver will fail otherwise. Not sure if I
understand your question.

/Jarkko
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