Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751921AbdGRIOA (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jul 2017 04:14:00 -0400 Received: from mail-oi0-f68.google.com ([209.85.218.68]:35998 "EHLO mail-oi0-f68.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751586AbdGRIN4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jul 2017 04:13:56 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1830340.t0pR7po4tk@positron.chronox.de> References: <3910055.ntkqcq1Chb@positron.chronox.de> <1830340.t0pR7po4tk@positron.chronox.de> From: Arnd Bergmann Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 10:13:55 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: pbnJ6jtSEZJyg2oejxe1Bi0wyto Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v12 2/4] random: conditionally compile code depending on LRNG To: =?UTF-8?Q?Stephan_M=C3=BCller?= Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by nfs id v6I8E7M7015860 Content-Length: 466 Lines: 13 On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 9:58 AM, Stephan Müller wrote: > When selecting the LRNG for compilation, disable add_disk_randomness and > its supporting function. > > CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman > CC: Arnd Bergmann > CC: Jason A. Donenfeld > Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller I think this needs a better explanation. Why do we ignore the extra entropy here? Arnd