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Date:   Thu, 1 Aug 2019 19:32:15 +0300
From:   Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
To:     Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] KEYS: trusted: allow module init if TPM is inactive or
 deactivated
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On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 06:44:28PM +0200, Roberto Sassu wrote:
> According to the bug report at https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/62678,
> the trusted module is a dependency of the ecryptfs module. We should
> load the trusted module even if the TPM is inactive or deactivated.
> 
> Given that commit 782779b60faa ("tpm: Actually fail on TPM errors during
> "get random"") changes the return code of tpm_get_random(), the patch
> should be modified to ignore the -EIO error. I will send a new version.

Do you have information where this dependency comes from?

/Jarkko