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Re: [PATCH 2/2] ath9k: disable RNG by default

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Hi Henrique,

On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 07:24:58AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Aug 2016, Stephan Mueller wrote:
> > RHEL 7 and Fedora do not adjust it. So, shall we consider those rng-tools then 
> > broken (at least in those large distros)?
> 
> Might I humbly suggest that the kernel start providing some metatada
> about the quality of the random source that userspace can consume?
> Preferably by a new ioctl, so that it will fit naturally if we ever
> extend /dev/hwrng to support more than one source?
> 
> That would allow for auto tunning to be implemented in userspace...

See my reply to Keith Packard's proposed multi-device hw_random patch:

  https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160809165710.GC2013@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

and top of thread:

  https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1469477255-26824-1-git-send-email-keithp@xxxxxxxxxx

thx,

Jason.
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