Re: [PATCH RFC 0/7] revert RNG seed mess

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Mon Feb 20 2023 - 06:55:29 EST


On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 10:48:57AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 11:32:58AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 08, 2023 at 04:12:23PM -0500, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > All attempts to fix up passing RNG seed via setup_data entry failed.
> > > Let's just rip out all of it. We'll start over.
> > >
> > >
> > > Warning: all I did was git revert the relevant patches and resolve the
> > > (trivial) conflicts. Not even compiled - it's almost midnight here.
> > >
> > > Jason this is the kind of approach I'd like to see, not yet another
> > > pointer math rich patch I need to spend time reviewing. Just get us back
> > > to where we started. We can redo "x86: use typedef for SetupData struct"
> > > later if we want, it's benign.
> >
> > This approach looks suitable for applying to the 7.2 tree too,
> > which will be good for fixing the regressions in stable.
>
> Since no further alternative has been proposed, can you consider sending
> a pull request for this series. This has been broken for too long and
> many users & vendors are looking for an official fix to be applied to
> master before they backport to 7.2
>
> With regards,
> Daniel
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Will do. Thanks!