From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ath9k: disable RNG by default Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 07:24:58 -0300 Message-ID: <20160809102458.GA20214@khazad-dum.debian.net> References: <1470726147-30095-1-git-send-email-miaoqing@codeaurora.org> <12791731.pG3fmEhvyp@tauon.atsec.com> <20160809095657.GB6618@gondor.apana.org.au> <11316081.S4pPZmZMrt@tauon.atsec.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Herbert Xu , "Pan, Miaoqing" , Matt Mackall , "miaoqing-sgV2jX0FEOL9JmXXK+q4OQ@public.gmane.org" , "Valo, Kalle" , "linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , ath9k-devel , "linux-crypto-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "jason-NLaQJdtUoK4Be96aLqz0jA@public.gmane.org" , "Sepehrdad, Pouyan" To: Stephan Mueller Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <11316081.S4pPZmZMrt-gNvIQDDl/k7Ia13z/PHSgg@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-wireless-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-crypto.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 09 Aug 2016, Stephan Mueller wrote: > RHEL 7 and Fedora do not adjust it. So, shall we consider those rng-tools then > broken (at least in those large distros)? Might I humbly suggest that the kernel start providing some metatada about the quality of the random source that userspace can consume? Preferably by a new ioctl, so that it will fit naturally if we ever extend /dev/hwrng to support more than one source? That would allow for auto tunning to be implemented in userspace... -- Henrique Holschuh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html