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random: Add comment to random_initialize()
authorTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Mon, 23 Jul 2012 16:47:57 +0000 (09:47 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 15 Aug 2012 19:04:29 +0000 (12:04 -0700)
commitdbbdd2bb89716814a5336105d8b3e6fd64ff0886
tree96b0ce71291b06b8030559310933b422e405d139
parentb6b847a93be87fc9974d8232984668a5a59754df
random: Add comment to random_initialize()

commit cbc96b7594b5691d61eba2db8b2ea723645be9ca upstream.

Many platforms have per-machine instance data (serial numbers,
asset tags, etc.) squirreled away in areas that are accessed
during early system bringup. Mixing this data into the random
pools has a very high value in providing better random data,
so we should allow (and even encourage) architecture code to
call add_device_randomness() from the setup_arch() paths.

However, this limits our options for internal structure of
the random driver since random_initialize() is not called
until long after setup_arch().

Add a big fat comment to rand_initialize() spelling out
this requirement.

Suggested-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/char/random.c