From: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>,
Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@bitmath.org>,
djkurtz@chromium.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Input: feed more data into entropy pool
Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 09:15:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160519071554.GG23234@mail.corp.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160518213244.GA3167@dtor-ws>
On May 18 2016 or thereabouts, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Commit 4369c64c79a22 ("Input: Send events one packet at a time")
> significantly reduced amount of entropy input core was feeding to the rest
> of the system, because only the very first event in the event block would
> be used as source of entropy.
>
> With this change we will be calling add_input_randomness() for every event
> that is not filtered by the input core as a duplicate. In addition, all
> EV_SYN events are ignored.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com>
Thanks!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-19 7:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-18 21:32 [PATCH] Input: feed more data into entropy pool Dmitry Torokhov
2016-05-19 6:46 ` Henrik Rydberg
2016-05-19 7:15 ` Benjamin Tissoires [this message]
2016-05-19 8:39 ` Jiri Kosina
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