From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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 12:29:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87txth2lbi.fsf@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <508AAC32.8020705@redhat.com>
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> writes:
> 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. :)
Let's move this to my thread please...
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
>
>> Three of these patches can be dropped. See the series I sent out.
>
> Same comments apply there...
>
> Paolo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-26 17:30 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
2012-10-26 17:29 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
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