Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 1/3] VirtIO-RNG: Update default entropy source to `/dev/urandom`

[Markus Armbruster]

Laurent Vivier <address@hidden> writes:

> On 14/05/2019 10:08, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote:
>> On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 09:56:00AM +0200, Laurent Vivier wrote:
>>> From: Kashyap Chamarthy <address@hidden>
>>>
>>> When QEMU exposes a VirtIO-RNG device to the guest, that device needs a
>>> source of entropy, and that source needs to be "non-blocking", like
>>> `/dev/urandom`.  However, currently QEMU defaults to the problematic
>>> `/dev/random`, which on linux is "blocking" (as in, it waits until
>>
>> OCD nit: s/linux/Linux/
>>
>> Maybe Michael can do the touch up when applying.
>
> A little reminder: this patch can be applied alone, but the followings
> need the series from Richard to be applied first.

I guess you mean
    [PATCH v6 00/25] Add qemu_getrandom and ARMv8.5-RNG etc
    Message-Id: <address@hidden>

You can make the dependency machine-readable by declaring

    Based-on: <address@hidden>

in your cover letter.  Patchew will then test your series on top of
Richard's.