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rtc: wm831x: Feed the write counter into device_add_randomness()
authorMark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Thu, 5 Jul 2012 20:19:17 +0000 (20:19 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 15 Aug 2012 14:52:49 +0000 (07:52 -0700)
commitbb1f7df1f0673247e16e96873bf99db0913bcf7f
tree8e35c01e2aadfe9e9d59b1de0a6c75383bad8729
parent5835ac8ab3c5ab7dd8ed0719dbc90265991fc155
rtc: wm831x: Feed the write counter into device_add_randomness()

commit 9dccf55f4cb011a7552a8a2749a580662f5ed8ed upstream.

The tamper evident features of the RTC include the "write counter" which
is a pseudo-random number regenerated whenever we set the RTC. Since this
value is unpredictable it should provide some useful seeding to the random
number generator.

Only do this on boot since the goal is to seed the pool rather than add
useful entropy.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/rtc/rtc-wm831x.c