From: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
To: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>,
Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Feed entire flattened device tree into the random pool
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 13:17:18 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130725031717.GB15673@concordia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130725125122.78accf44@kryten>
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 12:51:22PM +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote:
>
> We feed the entire DMI table into the random pool to provide
> better random data during early boot, so do the same with the
> flattened device tree.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
> ---
>
> It might be worth doing this somewhere common, but the only place
> I could find (unflatten_device_tree) is almost certainly too
> early in the boot process.
Nice.
But why not put the initcall in drivers/of/fdt.c, that way it's not
early but it's still common ?
cheers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-25 3:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-25 2:51 [PATCH] powerpc: Feed entire flattened device tree into the random pool Anton Blanchard
2013-07-25 3:17 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2013-07-25 4:30 ` [PATCH] of: " Anton Blanchard
2013-07-25 4:42 ` David Gibson
2013-07-28 4:49 ` Grant Likely
2013-07-29 3:11 ` Anton Blanchard
2013-08-29 20:47 ` Grant Likely
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