From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: linus.walleij@linaro.org (Linus Walleij) Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 10:20:48 +0200 Subject: [PATCH v2] ARM: omap2: throw the die id into the entropy pool In-Reply-To: References: <1378366158-31183-1-git-send-email-linus.walleij@linaro.org> Message-ID: To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 9:14 PM, Paul Walmsley wrote: > Heh, that function name "add_device_randomness()" is a bit misleading. > It's not actually intended to add "randomness": from > drivers/char/random.c: Yeah you're right... Tony feel free to edit the commit message when applying. > * None of this adds any entropy, it is meant to avoid the > * problem of the nonblocking pool having similar initial state > * across largely identical devices. It's noble enough, just a few years back I ran into the problem where all boards in a test farm came up with the same ethernet MAC address due to the initialization of the nonblocking pool being constant. Yours, Linus Walleij