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From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: sd: Contribute to randomness when running rotational device
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 02:58:16 -0400
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Xuewei,

> Currently a scsi device won't contribute to kernel randomness when it
> uses blk-mq. Since we commonly use scsi on rotational device with
> blk-mq, it make sense to keep contributing to kernel randomness in these
> cases. This is especially important for virtual machines.

Applied to 4.19/scsi-fixes, thank you!

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering