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On 12/20/19 11:36 AM, Mimi Zohar wrote:

>>
>> Shall I create a new patch set to address that and have that be reviewed
>> independent of this patch set?
> 
> If it is just a single additional patch, feel free to post it without
> a cover letter.

Sure

>>
>> Like you'd suggested earlier, we can wait for a certain time, after IMA
>> is initialized, and free the queue if a custom policy was not loaded.
> 
> Different types of systems vary in boot time, but perhaps a certain
> amount of time after IMA is initialized would be consistent.  This
> would need to work for IoT devices/sensors to servers.
> 
> Mimi
> 

Yes - I agree.

thanks,
  -lakshmi