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From:   Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Date:   Fri, 14 Feb 2020 07:49:06 -0600
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] random: add random.rng_seed to bootconfig entry
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On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 12:10 AM Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> The following series is bootconfig based implementation of
> the rng_seed option patch originally from Mark Salyzyn.
> Note that I removed unrelated command line fixes from this
> series.

Why do we need this? There's already multiple other ways to pass
random seed and this doesn't pass the "too complex for the command
line" argument you had for needing bootconfig.

Rob