* Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> [130910 01:28]: > 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. Thanks, I'll apply this into omap-for-v3.13/fixes-not-urgent with updated comments. Tony -- 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
