VOTE Apply PR#9084 reverting DEVRANDOM_WAIT

Kurt Roeckx kurt at roeckx.be
Fri Jun 7 19:25:50 UTC 2019


On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 03:08:24PM -0400, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
> > On Jun 7, 2019, at 2:41 PM, Kurt Roeckx <kurt at roeckx.be> wrote:
> > 
> >> This is not the sort of thing to bolt into the kernel, but is not
> >> unreasonable for systemd and the like.
> > 
> > The kernel actually already does this in recent versions, if
> > configured to do it.
> 
> We're talking about what to do with for older kernels.

For older kernels you install rng-tools that feeds the hwrng in
the kernel.


Kurt



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