Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-trivial] [PATCH] linux-user: Add random ioctls

[Marco A L Barbosa]

I submitted a new patch. Thanks.

On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 7:35 AM, Laurent Vivier <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 05/10/2017 12:24, Marco A L Barbosa wrote:
> >     I doesn't look really trivial...
> >
> >     To manage the buf field you must read buf_size and it cannot be done
> in
> >     a generic way: you must define a function to translate the buffer,
> use
> >     IOCTL_SPECIAL() with RNDADDENTROPY and RNDGETPOOL.
> >
> >     You should send your patch using "git send-email" or "git publish"
> >     instead of adding it in you email client.
> >
> >
> > Thanks for your advices.
> >
> > My use case only requires support for RNDGETENTCNT... Considering that
> > RNDADDENTROPY and RNDGETPOOL are non trivial, would a patch with only
> > RNDGETENTCNT, RNDADDTOENTCNT, RNDZAPENTCNT and RNDCLEARPOOL be accepted?
>
> I think you can only post what you use. If it is tested, it's better...
>
> Thanks,
> Laurent
>



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