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author | Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> | 2012-07-23 09:47:57 -0700 |
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committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2012-07-24 13:16:41 -0400 |
commit | cbc96b7594b5691d61eba2db8b2ea723645be9ca (patch) | |
tree | 440e0d132abdb6b1d03e9440c803c0f7e2db38fc /drivers/firmware | |
parent | b4237003cff66084ebeb502412d9cee392e6f52f (diff) |
random: Add comment to random_initialize()
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: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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