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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] random,x86,kvm: Add and use MSR_KVM_GET_RNG_SEED
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 14:36:56 -0700
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Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>,
	kvm list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
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	Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
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On 07/16/2014 02:32 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> 
> On the theory that I see no legitimate reason to expose this to guest
> user space, I think we shouldn't expose it.  If we wanted to add a
> get_random_bytes syscall, that would be an entirely different story,
> though.
> 
> Should I send v3 as one series or should I split it into host and guest parts?
> 

It doesn't matter... as long as they are separate *patches*.

	-hpa