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

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

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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