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From: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-trivial] [PATCH] linux-user: Add random
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To: Marco A L Barbosa <malbarbo@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, qemu-trivial@nongnu.org

On 05/10/2017 12:24, Marco A L Barbosa wrote:
>     I doesn't look really trivial...
> 
>     To manage the buf field you must read buf_size and it cannot be done in
>     a generic way: you must define a function to translate the buffer, use
>     IOCTL_SPECIAL() with RNDADDENTROPY and RNDGETPOOL.
> 
>     You should send your patch using "git send-email" or "git publish"
>     instead of adding it in you email client.
> 
> 
> Thanks for your advices.
> 
> My use case only requires support for RNDGETENTCNT... Considering that
> RNDADDENTROPY and RNDGETPOOL are non trivial, would a patch with only
> RNDGETENTCNT, RNDADDTOENTCNT, RNDZAPENTCNT and RNDCLEARPOOL be accepted?

I think you can only post what you use. If it is tested, it's better...

Thanks,
Laurent