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From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	patches@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com
Subject: Re: mfd: wm831x: Feed the device UUID into device_add_randomness()
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 17:23:33 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120706212333.GA4877@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1341519801-5904-1-git-send-email-broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>

On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 08:23:21PM -0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> wm831x devices contain a unique ID value. Feed this into the newly added
> device_add_randomness() to add some per device seed data to the pool.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
> 
> add_device_randomness() has only just been added in -next, this will
> need to either wait until after the merge window or be merged along with
> the patch adding it.

Thanks, I've added this to the /dev/random git tree.

	     	   	       		   - Ted

      reply	other threads:[~2012-07-06 21:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-05 20:23 [PATCH] mfd: wm831x: Feed the device UUID into device_add_randomness() Mark Brown
2012-07-06 21:23 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]

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