Re: [Patch v5.1 03/03]: hwrng: khwrngd derating per device

["Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>]

OK, I've merged these changes into the random.git tree.

I had to make a few minor changes.

1)  Changes so it would compile on 3.15.  (random_write_wakeup_thresh
got renamed to random_write_wakeup_bits).  I'm guessing the patch was
massaged so that it would apply, but it was never compile tested.

2)  Fixed a bug in patch #2 so that it would work correctly if the rng
driver doesn't have an init function (which happens to be the case for
the tpm-rng driver, which I used for my testing).

There are also a few minor rough edges that I've noted, but not yet
fixed.  The main one is that if you've compiled the hw_random's
rng_core into the kernel, changes to
/sys/modules/rng_core/parameters/* won't actually cause the hwrngd
kerenl thread to get started.  You have to set the parameters before
you load the rng module in order for them to be activated.  And if
you've compiled the rng module into the kernel, that trick won't work.

Fixing this probably means that we need to set up a formal sysfs tree
under /sys/kernel/hw_random.

						- Ted