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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 1/3] hw_random: allow RNG devices to give early randomness after a delay
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?

Cheers,
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