VOTE Apply PR#9084 reverting DEVRANDOM_WAIT

[Dr Paul Dale]

The devices where I’ve experienced long start up delays didn’t all have a HRNG.  The rng-tools wouldn’t have achieved anything.

ColdFire based routers running a 2.0 Linux kernel were the first time I personally saw this one.  uClinux still supported 2.0 kernels last I checked — they are very small and relatively fast.


Pauli
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> On 8 Jun 2019, at 5:25 am, Kurt Roeckx <kurt at roeckx.be> wrote:
> 
> 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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