[PATCH] hwrng-PIC32: Delete unnecessary assignment for the field "owner"

2016-08-15 Thread SF Markus Elfring
From: Markus Elfring Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 07:51:21 +0200 The field "owner" is set by the core. Thus delete an unneeded initialisation. Generated by: scripts/coccinelle/api/platform_no_drv_owner.cocci Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring --- drivers/char/hw_random/pic32-rng.c | 1 - 1 file changed,

Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] /dev/random - a new approach

2016-08-15 Thread Stephan Mueller
Am Montag, 15. August 2016, 13:42:54 CEST schrieb H. Peter Anvin: Hi H, > On 08/11/16 05:24, Stephan Mueller wrote: > > * prevent fast noise sources from dominating slow noise sources > > > > in case of /dev/random > > Can someone please explain if and why this is actually desirable, and if >

Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] /dev/random - a new approach

2016-08-15 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 08/11/16 05:24, Stephan Mueller wrote: > * prevent fast noise sources from dominating slow noise sources > in case of /dev/random Can someone please explain if and why this is actually desirable, and if this assessment has been passed to someone who has actual experience with cryptography at

Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] /dev/random - a new approach

2016-08-15 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 08:13:06AM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote: > > According to my understanding of NAPI, the network card sends one interrupt > when receiving the first packet of a packet stream and then the driver goes > into polling mode, disabling the interrupt. So, I cannot see any batchi

Re: [PATCH v2] RANDOM: ATH9K RNG delivers zero bits of entropy

2016-08-15 Thread Kalle Valo
"Pan, Miaoqing" writes: > The entropy was evaluated by crypto expert, the analysis report show > the ADC with at least 10bits and up to 22 bits of min-entropy for a 32 > bits value, we conservatively assume the min-entropy is 10 bits out of > 32 bits, so that's why set entropy quality to 320/1024