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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/4] pci: set "untrusted" flag for truly external devices only
On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 06:17:40PM -0700, Rajat Jain wrote:
> The "ExternalFacing" devices (root ports) are still internal devices
> that sit on the internal system fabric and thus trusted. Currently they
> were being marked untrusted - likely as an unintended border case.

It was actually intentional :) At the time this was added we did not see
benefits from doing this and even with this you actually are going to
still miss things like a TBT chip that is soldered on the motherboard, I
guess that can be though as an internal device as well.

No objections to this patch, though.

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