From: Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@redhat.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: virtio-comment@lists.oasis-open.org,
virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, virtio@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [virtio-dev] [PATCH] virtio-rng: fix device/driver confusion
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2019 02:36:32 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <928289982.36200800.1574667392106.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191124124344.262655-1-mst@redhat.com>
>
> The point of rng is to give data to driver so of course
> all buffers are driver readable. What shouldn't be there
> is device readable buffers - this matches our terminology
> elsewhere too (read/write-ability is from POV of device).
>
> Fixes: https://github.com/oasis-tcs/virtio-spec/issues/55
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@redhat.com>
> ---
> content.tex | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/content.tex b/content.tex
> index 678afbe..72e832e 100644
> --- a/content.tex
> +++ b/content.tex
> @@ -4721,7 +4721,7 @@ \subsection{Device Operation}\label{sec:Device Types /
> Entropy Device / Device O
>
> \drivernormative{\subsubsection}{Device Operation}{Device Types / Entropy
> Device / Device Operation}
>
> -The driver MUST NOT place driver-readable buffers into the queue.
> +The driver MUST NOT place device-readable buffers into the queue.
>
> The driver MUST examine the length written by the device to determine
> how many random bytes were received.
> --
> MST
>
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2019-11-24 12:44 [virtio] [PATCH] virtio-rng: fix device/driver confusion Michael S. Tsirkin
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