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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 0/2] hwrng, virtio-rng: init-time fixes
On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 10:10:28AM +0530, Amit Shah wrote:
> On (Mon) 14 Jul 2014 [20:50:06], Herbert Xu wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 03:42:33PM +0530, Amit Shah wrote:
> > > v3:
> > > - Kees Cook pointed out a weird side-effect: devices which have
> > > ->init() registered get their randomness added to the system each
> > > time they're switched in, but devices that don't have the init
> > > callback don't contribute to system randomness more than once. The
> > > weirdness is resolved here by using the randomness each time
> > > hwrng_init() is attempted, irrespective of the existence of the
> > > device's ->init() callback.
> >
> > All applied to crypto. Thanks!
>
> Thanks, Herbert. I didn't mention it, but pls queue it up for 3.16.

Yes that's why it's in crypto as opposed to cryptodev.

Cheers,
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