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Subject: Re: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH v4 2/2] tpm: vtpm_proxy: Implement
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On 05/16/2017 03:03 PM, Ken Goldman wrote:
> On 5/10/2017 7:54 PM, Stefan Berger wrote:
>> Implement the request_locality function. To set the locality on the
>> backend we define vendor-specific TPM 1.2 and TPM 2 ordinals and send
>> a command to the backend to set the locality for the next commands.
>
> When this says "for the next commands", does that mean that the locality
> is fixed for all commands until a new request_locality is sent to 
> change it?

Yes.