From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: PrasannaKumar Muralidharan <prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com>
Cc: corbet@lwn.net, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: hw_random: Fix issue related to feeding entropy pool
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 17:17:49 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170922091749.GA15902@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170822161544.24958-1-prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com>
PrasannaKumar Muralidharan <prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com> wrote:
> There is no need to use rng-tools for feeding random data into kernel
> entropy pool as hw_random core handles it. Documentation suggested that
> rng-tools is required which is incorrect. So remove it.
>
> Signed-off-by: PrasannaKumar Muralidharan <prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com>
Hmm, the tool still exists and can still be used to feed /dev/random.
Feeding /dev/random directly from the kernel is just one way of
using hwrng.
So rather than removing it perhaps you can modify it to state that
the kernel can now feed /dev/random as an option.
Cheers,
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Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-22 16:15 [PATCH] Documentation: hw_random: Fix issue related to feeding entropy pool PrasannaKumar Muralidharan
2017-09-22 9:17 ` Herbert Xu [this message]
2017-09-22 9:29 ` PrasannaKumar Muralidharan
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