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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 09:02:32 -0600
From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
To: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	Sahil Rihan <srihan@fb.com>, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tpm: allow TCPA log area to be empty
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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