Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Jul 2014 17:14:08 +0800 | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] hw_random: allow RNG devices to give early randomness after a delay |
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On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 02:26:26PM +0530, Amit Shah wrote: > > > Sounds like a good idea to me. Though, changes in core.c that > > increase the time in hwrng_register() or hwrng_init() may not get > > noticed by rng drivers and they may suddenly start failing for no > > apparent reason. Seems like a far stretch, though. Does anyone else > > have an opinion on this? > > Herbert, do you have any preference?
So it's only virtio-rng that's a problem, right? How about if we abuse the scan hook in virtio and move the hwrng_register there?
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