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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] tpm: vtpm_proxy: Implement new ioctl to get
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Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 11:31:30 -0600
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On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 01:28:17PM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:

> >So allowing request_locality to fail from userspace seems reasonable.
> 
> What's the best interface to use for this ?

If locality support is enabled then send a request locality packet to
userspace and block until return, just like command execution?

Jason