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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>, qemu list <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/8] virtio-rng: hardware random number generator device
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 17:28:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <508AAC32.8020705@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871ugljmev.fsf@codemonkey.ws>

Il 26/10/2012 17:14, Anthony Liguori ha scritto:
>> > I would instead have the following:
>> >
>> > - a chardev that can read from a file (e.g. -chardev
>> > file,path=/dev/urandom,read=on,id=urandom)
> Then your multiplexing lots of logic into the chardev layer.

Then call it -chardev filein,path=/dev/urandom,id=urandom. :)

> Three of these patches can be dropped.  See the series I sent out.

Same comments apply there...

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-26 15:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-26 11:01 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/8] virtio-rng: hardware random number generator device Amit Shah
2012-10-26 11:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/8] object: add object_property_add_bool (v2) Amit Shah
2012-10-26 11:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/8] qdev: add realized property and make adding child bus implied by realize Amit Shah
2012-10-26 11:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/8] vl: add -object option to create QOM objects from the command line Amit Shah
2012-10-26 11:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/8] vl: add -late-object to create QOM objects after machine init Amit Shah
2012-10-26 11:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/8] rng: add RndBackend abstract object class Amit Shah
2012-10-26 11:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/8] rng-urandom: add an RNG backend that uses /dev/urandom Amit Shah
2012-10-26 11:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/8] rng-egd: introduce EGD compliant RNG backend Amit Shah
2012-10-26 11:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 8/8] virtio-rng: hardware random number generator device Amit Shah
2012-10-26 14:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/8] " Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-26 15:14   ` Anthony Liguori
2012-10-26 15:28     ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2012-10-26 17:29       ` Anthony Liguori

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