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Commit dbbdd2bb authored by Tony Luck's avatar Tony Luck Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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random: Add comment to random_initialize()


commit cbc96b75 upstream.

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: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent b6b847a9
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