From: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
To: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de>,
"Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: Babis Chalios <bchalios@amazon.es>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <graf@amazon.de>,
<xmarcalx@amazon.co.uk>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
"rostedt@goodmis.org" <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Ted Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] vmgenid: emit uevent when VMGENID updates
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2023 13:51:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <00d6172f-e291-4e96-9d3e-63ee8e60d556@amazon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZJGNREN4tLzQXOJr@gardel-login>
Hi Jason,
On 20.06.23 13:28, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Mo, 19.06.23 22:30, Jason A. Donenfeld (Jason@zx2c4.com) wrote:
>
>> Like the other patch, and as discussed before too, I don't think this
>> has any business being part of (virtual) hardware drivers, and instead
>> belongs in random.c, which might receive these notifications from a
>> variety of devices, and can thus synchronize things accordingly.
>> Please stop posting more of these same approaches. Same nack as the
>> other ones.
> Note the intended usecase for this in userspace really has nothing to
> do with RNGs. We just want an event that is generated when a machine
> is duplicated so that we can request a new DHCP lease, and similar. I
> don't see any relationship to random.c for that.
Checking up on this conversation. The intended use case has nothing to
do with RNG - we merely need a notification for system level user space
that a system clone operation happened so it can act on it.
Please consider taking the patch as is or advise on how to proceed to
address this non-RNG use case.
Thanks,
Alex
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-14 12:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-31 9:51 [PATCH 0/1] User space notifications about VM cloning Babis Chalios
2023-05-31 9:51 ` [PATCH 1/1] vmgenid: emit uevent when VMGENID updates Babis Chalios
2023-06-19 9:14 ` Alexander Graf
2023-06-19 15:48 ` Lennart Poettering
2023-06-19 20:30 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2023-06-19 20:37 ` Alexander Graf
2023-06-20 10:27 ` Babis Chalios
2023-06-20 11:28 ` Lennart Poettering
2023-11-14 12:51 ` Alexander Graf [this message]
2023-06-16 15:07 ` [PATCH 0/1] User space notifications about VM cloning Babis Chalios
2023-06-28 11:13 ` Alexander Graf
2023-06-28 11:22 ` Greg KH
2023-06-28 11:36 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2023-06-28 11:47 ` Greg KH
2023-06-28 16:08 ` Greg KH
2023-06-28 16:27 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2023-06-28 16:53 ` Amit Shah
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