[RFC/PATCH 2/3] arm: Add ARCH_WANT_OF_RANDOMNESS

Laura Abbott
2014-02-13T00:54:07Z

On 2/12/2014 8:49 AM, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 17:33:24 -0800, Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org> wrote:
>> The stack canary for ARM is currently the same across reboots
>> due to lack of randomness early enough. Add ARCH_WANT_OF_RANDOMNESS
>> to allow devices to add whatever randomness they need.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org>
>
> Do you have a draft patch for a user of this yet?
>

I had a particular patch in mind but I need to re-work it to work with
the upstream tree. I wanted to at least send out the infrastructure to
see how open people were to the idea. After reading the comments, I have
a couple more ideas of users as well. I'll see if I can work that in for v2.

> g.
>

Thanks,
Laura

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