[PATCH v2] ARM: omap2: throw the die id into the entropy pool
Tony Lindgren
tony at atomide.com
Thu Oct 3 14:13:33 EDT 2013
* Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org> [130910 01:28]:
> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 9:14 PM, Paul Walmsley <paul at pwsan.com> 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
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