RE: [PATCH] tpm: tpm_try_transmit() refactor error flow.

From: Winkler, Tomas
Date: Thu Oct 18 2018 - 02:06:35 EST




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> Subject: Re: [PATCH] tpm: tpm_try_transmit() refactor error flow.
>
> On Tue, 16 Oct 2018, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> > First, rename out_no_locality to out_locality for bailing out on both
> > tpm_cmd_ready() and tpm_request_locality() failure.
>
> This is unnecessary change and technically it is not a rename: the commit
> message text and the code change do not match. Rename is just a rename
> (i.e. change a variable name foo to bar).

I'm renaming the label because it doesn't match the code flow anymore,
I can change the commit message, but you please review the code.
Tomas