Re: [PATCH] hwrng: core - allow perfect entropy from hardware devices

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Wed Mar 18 2015 - 01:18:46 EST


On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 10:13:28PM -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
> Hardware random number quality is measured from 0 (no entropy) to 1024
> (perfect entropy). Allow hardware devices to assert the full range by
> truncating the device-provided value at 1024 instead of 1023.
>
> Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <keithp@xxxxxxxxxx>

Please cc all hwrng patches to linux-crypto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that
it gets picked up by patchworks. Thanks!
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