On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 12:48:41AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > The proposed arch_get_rng_seed() is not really what it claims to be; it > most definitely does not produce seed-grade randomness, instead it seems > to be an arch function for best-effort initialization of the entropy > pools -- which is fine, it is just something quite different. Without getting into an argument about which definition of "seed" is correct --- it's certainly confusing and different form the RDSEED usage of the word "seed". Do we expect that anyone else besides arch_get_rnd_seed() would actually want to use it? I'd argue no; we want the rest of the kernel to either use get_random_bytes() or prandom_u32(). Given that, maybe we should just call it arch_random_init(), and expect that the only user of this interface would be drivers/char/random.c? - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
