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From: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	"Pan, Miaoqing" <miaoqing@qti.qualcomm.com>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
	"miaoqing@codeaurora.org" <miaoqing@codeaurora.org>,
	"Valo, Kalle" <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>,
	"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	ath9k-devel <ath9k-devel@qca.qualcomm.com>,
	"linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org" <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Sepehrdad, Pouyan" <pouyans@qti.qualcomm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ath9k: disable RNG by default
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 17:51:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160809175108.GE2013@io.lakedaemon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160809102458.GA20214@khazad-dum.debian.net>

Hi Henrique,

On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 07:24:58AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Aug 2016, Stephan Mueller wrote:
> > RHEL 7 and Fedora do not adjust it. So, shall we consider those rng-tools then 
> > broken (at least in those large distros)?
> 
> Might I humbly suggest that the kernel start providing some metatada
> about the quality of the random source that userspace can consume?
> Preferably by a new ioctl, so that it will fit naturally if we ever
> extend /dev/hwrng to support more than one source?
> 
> That would allow for auto tunning to be implemented in userspace...

See my reply to Keith Packard's proposed multi-device hw_random patch:

  https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160809165710.GC2013@io.lakedaemon.net

and top of thread:

  https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1469477255-26824-1-git-send-email-keithp@keithp.com

thx,

Jason.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-09 17:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-09  7:02 [PATCH 1/2] ath9k: change entropy formula for easier understanding miaoqing
2016-08-09  7:02 ` [PATCH 2/2] ath9k: disable RNG by default miaoqing
2016-08-09  7:14   ` Stephan Mueller
2016-08-09  7:14     ` Stephan Mueller
2016-08-09  7:35     ` Pan, Miaoqing
2016-08-09  8:07       ` Stephan Mueller
2016-08-09  8:58         ` Herbert Xu
2016-08-09  9:02           ` Stephan Mueller
2016-08-09  9:17             ` Herbert Xu
2016-08-09  9:17               ` Herbert Xu
2016-08-09  9:37               ` Stephan Mueller
2016-08-09  9:37                 ` Stephan Mueller
2016-08-09  9:46                 ` Herbert Xu
2016-08-09  9:56                   ` Stephan Mueller
2016-08-09  9:56                     ` Herbert Xu
2016-08-09 10:06                       ` Stephan Mueller
2016-08-09 10:24                         ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2016-08-09 10:24                           ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2016-08-09 17:51                           ` Jason Cooper [this message]
2016-08-10  2:35                 ` Pan, Miaoqing
2016-08-10  2:35                   ` Pan, Miaoqing
2016-08-10  5:29                   ` Stephan Mueller
2016-08-10  5:29                     ` Stephan Mueller
2016-08-10  6:04                     ` Pan, Miaoqing
2016-08-10  6:04                       ` Pan, Miaoqing
2016-08-10  6:25                       ` Stephan Mueller
2016-08-10  6:46                         ` Pan, Miaoqing
2016-08-10  6:46                           ` Pan, Miaoqing
2016-08-10  6:51                           ` Stephan Mueller
2016-08-10  7:15                             ` Pan, Miaoqing
2016-08-10  7:27                               ` Stephan Mueller
2016-08-10  7:27                                 ` Stephan Mueller
2016-08-10  7:40                                 ` Pan, Miaoqing
2016-08-10  7:40                                   ` Pan, Miaoqing
2016-08-10  7:43                                   ` Pan, Miaoqing
2016-08-10  7:43                                     ` Pan, Miaoqing
2016-08-10 13:24                                     ` Jason Cooper
2016-08-10 13:24                                       ` Jason Cooper
2016-08-11  2:54                                       ` miaoqing
2016-08-11 13:14                                         ` Jason Cooper
2016-08-11 13:14                                           ` Jason Cooper
2016-08-09 17:48   ` Jason Cooper
2016-08-09 17:48     ` Jason Cooper
2016-09-28 10:00   ` [2/2] " Kalle Valo
2016-09-27 14:53 ` [1/2] ath9k: change entropy formula for easier understanding Kalle Valo
2016-09-27 14:53   ` Kalle Valo
2016-10-13 14:23 ` Kalle Valo
2016-10-13 14:23   ` Kalle Valo

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