From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:55538) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TRnjL-0004BX-OU for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 13:30:00 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TRnjK-0007ik-LL for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 13:29:59 -0400 Received: from mail-ob0-f173.google.com ([209.85.214.173]:54177) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TRnjK-0007ia-Gr for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 13:29:58 -0400 Received: by mail-ob0-f173.google.com with SMTP id wc18so2711429obb.4 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 10:29:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Anthony Liguori In-Reply-To: <508AAC32.8020705@redhat.com> References: <508A9A9E.3090203@redhat.com> <871ugljmev.fsf@codemonkey.ws> <508AAC32.8020705@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 12:29:53 -0500 Message-ID: <87txth2lbi.fsf@codemonkey.ws> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/8] virtio-rng: hardware random number generator device List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Amit Shah , qemu list Paolo Bonzini 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