From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF0CCC35242 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2020 19:58:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B19A9206D7 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2020 19:58:49 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1581710329; bh=XC5HWZChdpdyVR/sHe3gjLYY5rs5zXxK4u7OywTLHpE=; h=References:In-Reply-To:From:Date:Subject:To:Cc:List-ID:From; b=LzSTbg0iUPR1Cp2LL0VgLO7A71CQ2yTTqk1j7GBjMd2M9gslCzH0YiPTrGOOa8uXu b1eGp1McL46vE/CcRphyke0EQoOZ1WVRn8thwSmPyAdT4eOKkomAyLJ+5SG4wLhyuW ODAnl2PUSEpLUVAUqG3Gcqft4uyXuS4oFZ2adX/4= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2388798AbgBNT6t (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Feb 2020 14:58:49 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:32972 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2387401AbgBNT6t (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Feb 2020 14:58:49 -0500 Received: from mail-qt1-f182.google.com (mail-qt1-f182.google.com [209.85.160.182]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2889B24670; Fri, 14 Feb 2020 19:58:48 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1581710328; bh=XC5HWZChdpdyVR/sHe3gjLYY5rs5zXxK4u7OywTLHpE=; h=References:In-Reply-To:From:Date:Subject:To:Cc:From; b=SY15NjUO9PcKLxh7i6ZwO6NX31YVMxbMgN4ezk3OERsu210IZREbcF5B2w3hN0RwC ia6xMEt7nKfw8QRH0krNClFA+DXf7KMq8Kl/czVtkWG2Kt7JsBt5FoludaVoEKp48q /Qx6We0s8Rv02n9NrPTUFSCnpX/x29Jk1GZ04t+w= Received: by mail-qt1-f182.google.com with SMTP id n17so7791614qtv.2; Fri, 14 Feb 2020 11:58:48 -0800 (PST) X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAVPkPL+dsvd7OtXFqP6ZobH84VutkU5Mdb2Pw5V4Auq4lpYE2uK MEI1WIORkYxAy645nrw1+VzT9b4JJ3b8nyNgxw== X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqwsXrnW+RM01kek/DuNdK+aWFf5bKCS1++/Ib4hvavk7926vsQnkmnIIg3GmV+0f7UWNCdv+H++sX8uLJIBQKA= X-Received: by 2002:ac8:6747:: with SMTP id n7mr3980294qtp.224.1581710327072; Fri, 14 Feb 2020 11:58:47 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <158166060044.9887.549561499483343724.stgit@devnote2> <158166062748.9887.15284887096084339722.stgit@devnote2> In-Reply-To: <158166062748.9887.15284887096084339722.stgit@devnote2> From: Rob Herring Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2020 13:58:35 -0600 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] random: rng-seed source is utf-8 To: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Android Kernel Team , Mark Salyzyn , "Theodore Ts'o" , Arnd Bergmann , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Richard Henderson , Mark Brown , Kees Cook , Hsin-Yi Wang , Vasily Gorbik , Andrew Morton , Steven Rostedt , Mike Rapoport , Arvind Sankar , Dominik Brodowski , Thomas Gleixner , Alexander Potapenko , Jonathan Corbet , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Josh Poimboeuf , Pawan Gupta , Juergen Gross , Linux Doc Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 12:10 AM Masami Hiramatsu wrote: > > From: Mark Salyzyn > > commit 428826f5358c922dc378830a1717b682c0823160 > ("fdt: add support for rng-seed") makes the assumption that the data > in rng-seed is binary, when it is typically constructed of utf-8 Typically? Why is that? > characters which has a bitness of roughly 6 to give appropriate > credit due for the entropy.