Re: [PATCH 5.10 000/163] 5.10.119-rc1 review

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

On 5/28/22, Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 11:10:35PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
>> Hi Guenter,
>>
>> On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 09:59:14AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> > Given that we (ChromeOS) have been hit by rng related
>> > issues before (specifically boot stalls on some hardware), I am quite
>> > concerned about the possible impact of this series for stable releases.
>>
>> The urandom try_to_generate_entropy() change from 5.18 wasn't backported.
>>
>
> Was it not backported on purpose or is it missing ?
>

On purpose, on account of the concern that you expressed. Hence I
mentioned it in response to your message.

Jason