Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 May 2017 12:17:38 +0300 | From | Jarkko Sakkinen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] tpm: vtpm_proxy: Add ioctl to request locality prepended to command |
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On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 07:40:48PM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote: > On 05/03/2017 06:37 PM, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 09:02:18AM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote: > > > Add an ioctl to request that the locality be prepended to every TPM > > > command. > > Don't really understand this change. Why locality is prenpended? > > Commands can be executed under locality 0-3 and for some commands it is > important to know which locality a user may have chosen. How else should we > convey that locality to the TPM emulator ?
Why this is not in the commit message?
More scalable way to do this would be to have a set of vtpm proxy commands. There could be a command for requesting and releasing locality. That would be more clean.
/Jarkko
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