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authorTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>2012-07-23 09:47:57 -0700
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2012-07-24 13:16:41 -0400
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parentrandom: final removal of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM (diff)
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random: Add comment to random_initialize()
Many platforms have per-machine instance data (serial numbers, asset tags, etc.) squirreled away in areas that are accessed during early system bringup. Mixing this data into the random pools has a very high value in providing better random data, so we should allow (and even encourage) architecture code to call add_device_randomness() from the setup_arch() paths. However, this limits our options for internal structure of the random driver since random_initialize() is not called until long after setup_arch(). Add a big fat comment to rand_initialize() spelling out this requirement. Suggested-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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