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From: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] random: use hwgenerator randomness more frequently at early boot
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2022 15:04:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YxiW9doIXhbZBd+V@shine.dominikbrodowski.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YxiWajR2FEW6YRud@zx2c4.com>

Hi Jason,

Am Wed, Sep 07, 2022 at 03:02:34PM +0200 schrieb Jason A. Donenfeld:
> Hi Dominik,
> 
> On Sun, Sep 04, 2022 at 12:17:53PM +0200, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> > Mix in randomness from hw-rng sources more frequently during early
> > boot, approximately once for every rng reseed.
> 
> Nice idea.
> 
> > Jason, if you prefer that this patch can be applied first (as it
> > makes sense also independently of the other patch), this ordering
> > should be trivial to change.
> 
> I'll apply this patch first, yea, since it's independent.
> 
> > -static bool crng_has_old_seed(void)
> > +static unsigned int crng_interval(void)
> 
> crng_reseed_interval() instead?

Sounds good. Thanks!

	Dominik

  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-07 13:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-04 10:17 [PATCH] random: use hwgenerator randomness more frequently at early boot Dominik Brodowski
2022-09-07 13:02 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-09-07 13:04   ` Dominik Brodowski [this message]
2022-09-20 13:54 ` [PATCH v2] " Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-09-22 13:35   ` Dominik Brodowski

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