Return-path: Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:41680 "EHLO out2-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751020AbcHIKZC (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2016 06:25:02 -0400 Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 07:24:58 -0300 From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh To: Stephan Mueller Cc: Herbert Xu , "Pan, Miaoqing" , Matt Mackall , "miaoqing@codeaurora.org" , "Valo, Kalle" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , ath9k-devel , "linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org" , "jason@lakedaemon.net" , "Sepehrdad, Pouyan" Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ath9k: disable RNG by default Message-ID: <20160809102458.GA20214@khazad-dum.debian.net> (sfid-20160809_122507_251384_C80662FB) 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 In-Reply-To: <11316081.S4pPZmZMrt@tauon.atsec.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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