Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] tpm: ignore burstcount to improve tpm_tis send() performance

From: Jarkko Sakkinen
Date: Sun Nov 26 2017 - 10:22:28 EST


On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 08:17:42PM +0530, Nayna Jain wrote:
> Yeah, you are right, the first version of this patch sent all the
> bytes together, but after hearing ddwg inputs, i.e. "The last byte was
> introduced for error checking purposes (history).", I reverted back to
> original to be safe.

What does that mean ie error checking purposes?

> It seems that the last byte was sent from the beginning (27084ef
> [PATCH] tpm: driver for next generation TPM chips,), does anyone
> remember the reason ?

Sent from the beginning?

/Jarkko