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>>> Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> 21.11.06 03:21 >>>>* Dave Jones (davej@redhat.com) wrote:>> Since I pushed an update to our Fedora users based on 2.6.18.2, a few people >> have reported they no longer have their RNG's detected. >> Here's one report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=215144>>Hmm, I wonder if the report is valid? Jan's patch would have the correct >side effect of disabling false positives (for RNG identification). >Be good to check that it actually used to work. Indeed, that is quite significant to know here. >Having said that, Jan the datasheet recommendation is looser than your >implementation. It only recommends checking for manufacturer code, >you check device code as well. Do you know of any scenarios where that >would matter (I can't conceive of any)? Since Intel doesn't list any other device codes, I suppose there are none. But of course, it's not entirely impossible that there are others, but I wouldn't want to relax the already weak check; I'd rather want to add other device codes if we have proof that these are valid. Jan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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