Hi Dmitry,
On 05/18/2016 11:32 PM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Commit 4369c64c79a22 ("Input: Send events one packet at a time")
> significantly reduced amount of entropy input core was feeding to the rest
> of the system, because only the very first event in the event block would
> be used as source of entropy.
>
> With this change we will be calling add_input_randomness() for every event
> that is not filtered by the input core as a duplicate. In addition, all
> EV_SYN events are ignored.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks for this, it has been nagging me as well.
> - disposition = input_get_disposition(dev, type, code, &value);
> + if (disposition != INPUT_IGNORE_EVENT && type != EV_SYN)
> + add_input_randomness(type, code, value);
As a comment, it is not immediately clear to me how this will affect latency,
although it appears rather harmless.
Thanks,
Henrik
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