Re: [PATCH v5] x86/setup: Allow passing RNG seeds via e820 setup table

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

Hi Peter,

On Fri, Jul 01, 2022 at 11:25:49AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Please correct the incredibly confusing title of this patch.
> 
> The setup_data linked list has nothing to do with memory types (e820),
> except that memory types is one kind of data that can be passed on by
> this mechanism. This title makes it sound like you are passing random
> data in as a memory type, which could make some bizarre sense if it
> were, say, some kind of ring buffer preconfigured by the BIOS/VMM/boot
> loader to be continually overwritten with new random data.

Yea that is pretty confusing. Alright, I'll retitle that to something
like:

    x86/setup: Allow passing RNG seeds via setup data

Hopefully that matches more, considering the function that does the work
is called "parse_setup_data".

(I'll wait some more time before posting yet another v+1 with that
change, in case others have more feedback.)

Jason