On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 08:13:23PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:

On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 02:55:25PM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:

quoted

On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 09:02:32AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:

quoted

On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 06:16:37PM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:

quoted

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.

Well, I mean in the sense of what is broken and why is this the right
fix. Why not return -ENODEV?

Well, because then the device initialization would fail.

Just noticed that this is missing:

Reported-by: Sahil Rihan <redacted>

Sahil, would you care to try if this fixes the issue that you are
having or not?

/Jarkko
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