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From: Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 17:28:59 +0300

> On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 1:14 AM, Tantilov, Emil S
> <emil.s.tantilov@intel.com> wrote:
> 
>> Mainly because I am not sure that other (non-Intel) drivers will benefit from
>> such an option. In normal operation this functionality should not cause issues
>> and if it doesn't we may be able to deprecate the private flag in the future.
> 
> If you think this functionality makes sense any driver running over HW
> implementing
> it would like to be able to expose that and hence you better not use
> private flag.
> 
> Are we sure the trust UAPI can't be extended for that matter?

Yeah, we should probably make this a generic control if possible.