[PATCH v2] ARM: omap2: throw the die id into the entropy pool

[Linus Walleij]

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.

Yours,
Linus Walleij