On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 02:15:53PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > This patch adds a new interface which allows architecture-specific > > code to address a security issue with the random driver for those > > platforms which define get_cycles() to return zero all the time. The > > most important p[latform for this is MIPS, since there are a lot of > > home routers which use MIPS, but the full list is: > > But, what code is using that interface? Adding new features and > interfaces is not for stable kernel releases, is it? > > If no one is using this new interface, why add it? The code to use it is coming in the MIPS tree, and there was work that I expect would use it for 68k tree coming soon. Since it was a more substantial changes, I'm not surprised that it hasn't flowed into mainline yet, but I expect that it would during the next merge window. I pushed the interface pre-merge window due to the recent kvetching over too many patches that were targetted for the stable kernel showing up during the merge window. Since this was a low-risk patch, I decided to push it to Linus early. Regard, - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html