Hi, The following series is bootconfig based implementation of the rng_seed option patch originally from Mark Salyzyn. Note that I removed unrelated command line fixes from this series. To complete the support of UTF-8 for rng_seed, I added [1/3] to support non-ascii chars on the value (user can use 0x80- 0xff at the value of bootconfig). For [3/3], I updated to use bootconfig (xbc_find_value) instead of command line. Also move the documentation under Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig. Thank you, --- Mark Salyzyn (2): random: rng-seed source is utf-8 random: add random.rng_seed= bootconfig option Masami Hiramatsu (1): bootconfig: Support non-ascii characters in value Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig/random.rst | 21 ++++++++++++ drivers/char/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/char/random.c | 10 +++++- fs/proc/bootconfig.c | 4 ++ include/linux/random.h | 7 ++++ init/main.c | 41 ++++++++++++++++------- lib/bootconfig.c | 2 + tools/bootconfig/samples/good-non-ascii.bconf | 1 + 8 files changed, 73 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig/random.rst create mode 100644 tools/bootconfig/samples/good-non-ascii.bconf -- Masami Hiramatsu (Linaro) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>