[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.
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Andrea Bolognani
Software Engineer - Virtualization Team
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