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Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 13:17:18 +1000
From: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
To: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Feed entire flattened device tree into the
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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