Re: [PATCH v4] virt: vmgenid: introduce driver for reinitializing RNG on VM fork

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] virt: vmgenid: introduce driver for reinitializing RNG on VM fork
From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2022 16:45:50 +0100
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Hi Alex,

On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 04:37:43PM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
> I believe "VMGENID" was for the firecracker prototype that Adrian built 
> back then, yeah. Matching on _HID for this is a rat hole unfortunately, 
> so let's see what the ACPI patch gets us :).

Thanks. I'll add a comment to the code about Firecracker. And indeed
hopefully that'll all go away anyway.

Jason

References:
- Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] virt: vmgenid: introduce driver for reinitializing RNG on VM fork
  - From: Jason A. Donenfeld
- [PATCH v4] virt: vmgenid: introduce driver for reinitializing RNG on VM fork
  - From: Jason A. Donenfeld
- Re: [PATCH v4] virt: vmgenid: introduce driver for reinitializing RNG on VM fork
  - From: Alexander Graf
- Re: [PATCH v4] virt: vmgenid: introduce driver for reinitializing RNG on VM fork
  - From: Jason A. Donenfeld
- Re: [PATCH v4] virt: vmgenid: introduce driver for reinitializing RNG on VM fork
  - From: Alexander Graf
- Re: [PATCH v4] virt: vmgenid: introduce driver for reinitializing RNG on VM fork
  - From: Jason A. Donenfeld
- Re: [PATCH v4] virt: vmgenid: introduce driver for reinitializing RNG on VM fork
  - From: Alexander Graf
- Re: [PATCH v4] virt: vmgenid: introduce driver for reinitializing RNG on VM fork
  - From: Ard Biesheuvel
- Re: [PATCH v4] virt: vmgenid: introduce driver for reinitializing RNG on VM fork
  - From: Jason A. Donenfeld
- Re: [PATCH v4] virt: vmgenid: introduce driver for reinitializing RNG on VM fork
  - From: Alexander Graf

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