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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 7/7] tpm: pass an array of tpm_bank_list structures to
 tpm_pcr_extend()
To:     Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
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From:   Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
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On 12/5/2018 1:14 AM, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 09:21:38AM +0100, Roberto Sassu wrote:
>> The new tpm_bank_list structure has been preferred to the tpm_digest
>> structure, to let the caller specify the size of the digest (which may be
>> unknown to the TPM driver).
> 
> Why is that? Didn't previous commit query these?
> 
>> +struct tpm_bank_list {
>> +	u16 alg_id;
>> +	u16 extend_size;
>> +	const u8 *extend_array;
>> +};
> 
> Naming is not good here. If this only for extending shouldn't that
> be in the structs name?

tpm_extend_input?

Roberto


> /Jarkko
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