On Sat, 31 Dec 2016 00:58:54 +0100
David Gstir wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I recently tested kernel v4.9 on my AMD Geode platform and noticed that its
> AES hardware driver triggers this warning on initialization:
...
> I narrowed it down to commit 6e9b5e76882c ("hwrng: geode - Migrate to managed
> API
On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 11:41:41 -0700
ebied...@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
> One Thousand Gnomes writes:
>
> >> Andy you seem to be arguing here for two system calls.
> >> get_urandom() and get_random().
> >>
> >> Where get_urandom only bloc
> > We sort of have one. It's called capable(). Just needs extending to cover
> > anything else you care about, and probably all the numeric constants
> > replacing with textual names.
> >
>
> Except that it's all backwards: these are things that default to *on*,
> and people might want them to tu
> Andy you seem to be arguing here for two system calls.
> get_urandom() and get_random().
>
> Where get_urandom only blocks if there is not enough starting entropy,
> and get_random(GRND_RANDOM) blocks if there is currently not enough
> entropy.
>
> That would allow -ENOSYS to be the right retur
On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 11:30:48 -0700
Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> [new thread because this sort of combines two threads]
>
> There is recent interest in having a way to turn generally-available
> kernel features off. Maybe we should add a good one so we can stop
> bikeshedding and avoid proliferating
