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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] crypto: jitterentropy - bind statically into kernel
    On Sun, Oct 04, 2020 at 11:16:10PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
    > On Sun, 4 Oct 2020 at 20:48, Stephan M??ller <smueller@chronox.de> wrote:
    > >
    > > The RISC-V architecture is about to implement the callback
    > > random_get_entropy with a function that is not exported to modules.
    >
    > Why is that? Wouldn't it be better to export the symbol instead?

    get_cycles is a low-level time keeping detail that really should not
    be exported, and at least for RISC-V this would be the only modular
    user. Once that is sorted out I'll audit other common architectures
    to drop the export, as it isn't something that should be used in ramdom
    driver code.

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