On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 9:14 PM, Paul Walmsley <paul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Heh, that function name "add_device_randomness()" is a bit misleading. > It's not actually intended to add "randomness": from > drivers/char/random.c: Yeah you're right... Tony feel free to edit the commit message when applying. > * None of this adds any entropy, it is meant to avoid the > * problem of the nonblocking pool having similar initial state > * across largely identical devices. It's noble enough, just a few years back I ran into the problem where all boards in a test farm came up with the same ethernet MAC address due to the initialization of the nonblocking pool being constant. Yours, Linus Walleij -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
