Re: [ath9k-devel] [v2] RANDOM: ATH9K RNG delivers zero bits of entropy

2017-01-08 Thread Stephan Mueller
Am Dienstag, 27. September 2016, 16:44:16 CEST schrieb Kalle Valo: Hi Kalle, > Stephan Mueller <smuel...@chronox.de> wrote: > > The ATH9K driver implements an RNG which is completely bypassing the > > standard Linux HW generator logic. > > > > The RNG may or may

[ath9k-devel] [RFC][PATCH] RANDOM: ATH9K RNG delivers zero bits of entropy

2017-01-08 Thread Stephan Mueller
ata into the input_pool but it is assumed to have no entropy. When the ATH9K RNG changes to use the HW RNG framework, it may re-enable the entropy estimation considering that a user can change that value at boot and runtime. Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smuel...@chronox.de> --- drivers/net/wireless/

[ath9k-devel] [PATCH v2] RANDOM: ATH9K RNG delivers zero bits of entropy

2017-01-08 Thread Stephan Mueller
net> Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smuel...@chronox.de> --- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rng.c index d38e50f..1ed8338 100644 --- a/drivers/net/