From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECB82EB64D7 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2023 11:28:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S231670AbjFTL2T (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jun 2023 07:28:19 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:55612 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S230295AbjFTL2S (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jun 2023 07:28:18 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 70798 seconds by postgrey-1.37 at lindbergh.monkeyblade.net; Tue, 20 Jun 2023 04:28:07 PDT Received: from gardel.0pointer.net (gardel.0pointer.net [IPv6:2a01:238:43ed:c300:10c3:bcf3:3266:da74]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 90E06FE for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2023 04:28:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gardel-login.0pointer.net (gardel-mail [85.214.157.71]) by gardel.0pointer.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83030E8012D; Tue, 20 Jun 2023 13:28:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: by gardel-login.0pointer.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1F86C160075; Tue, 20 Jun 2023 13:28:04 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2023 13:28:04 +0200 From: Lennart Poettering To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" Cc: Babis Chalios , Theodore Ts'o , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, graf@amazon.de, xmarcalx@amazon.co.uk Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] vmgenid: emit uevent when VMGENID updates Message-ID: References: <20230531095119.11202-1-bchalios@amazon.es> <20230531095119.11202-2-bchalios@amazon.es> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mo, 19.06.23 22:30, Jason A. Donenfeld (Jason@zx2c4.com) wrote: > Like the other patch, and as discussed before too, I don't think this > has any business being part of (virtual) hardware drivers, and instead > belongs in random.c, which might receive these notifications from a > variety of devices, and can thus synchronize things accordingly. > Please stop posting more of these same approaches. Same nack as the > other ones. Note the intended usecase for this in userspace really has nothing to do with RNGs. We just want an event that is generated when a machine is duplicated so that we can request a new DHCP lease, and similar. I don't see any relationship to random.c for that. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Berlin