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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] rngd: add udev rule to source from hwrng if virtio-rng
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On 08/08/2014 02:07 AM, Amit Shah wrote:
>
> 
>>  To
>> some degree the above is obsolete when we get khwrngd widely deployed,
>> but that is a new-kernel-only kind of thing.
> 
> Right - I'm wondering if any such changes as propsed here are now
> obsolted already by khwrngd?
> 

In this case, yes, khwrngd would be a better solution for current kernels.

	-hpa