[libvirt] [PATCH] conf: Drop restrictions on rng backend path

Andrea Bolognani abologna at redhat.com
Thu Apr 21 08:17:30 UTC 2016


On Thu, 2016-04-21 at 10:06 +0200, Peter Krempa wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 18:19:25 -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
>> > @@ -6240,9 +6239,9 @@ qemu-kvm -net nic,model=? /dev/null
> >        <dd>
> >          <p>
> >            This backend type expects a non-blocking character device as input.
> > -          The only accepted paths are /dev/random and /dev/hwrng. The file
> > -          name is specified as contents of the <code>backend</code> element.
> > -          When no file name is specified the hypervisor default is used.
> > +          The file name is specified as contents of the
> > +          <code>backend</code> element. When no file name is specified the
> > +          this defaults to /dev/random.
> 
> I'd rather keep the "hypervisor default" wording. /dev/urandom is in no
> way platform or hypervisor agnostic. You may add though that for qemu
> driver the default indeed is /dev/random.

Also, "the this defaults" is quite obviously a typo :)

Cheers.

-- 
Andrea Bolognani
Software Engineer - Virtualization Team




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