[libvirt] [PATCH] docs: document rng backend path restrictions of older libvirt

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Tue Jun 14 14:09:14 UTC 2016


On 06/14/2016 09:15 AM, Ján Tomko wrote:
> Commit 67f2b72 removed the path restrictions for rng backend,
> along with the documentation of the restriction.
> 
> Restore the documentation for users still using older libvirt.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1074464
> ---
>  docs/formatdomain.html.in | 7 ++++---
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/docs/formatdomain.html.in b/docs/formatdomain.html.in
> index daa0891..17e563c 100644
> --- a/docs/formatdomain.html.in
> +++ b/docs/formatdomain.html.in
> @@ -6356,9 +6356,10 @@ qemu-kvm -net nic,model=? /dev/null
>              <p>
>                This backend type expects a non-blocking character device as
>                input. The file name is specified as contents of the
> -              <code>backend</code> element. When no file name is specified
> -              the hypervisor default is used. For qemu, the default is
> -              /dev/random
> +              <code>backend</code> element. <span class='since'>Since 1.3.4</span>
> +              any path is accepted. Before that /dev/random and /dev/hwrng were
> +              the only accepted paths. When no file name is specified the hypervisor
> +              default is used. For qemu, the default is /dev/random
>              </p>
>            </dd>
>            <dt><code>egd</code></dt>
> 

ACK

- Cole




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