On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 02:15:53PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > This patch adds a new interface which allows architecture-specific
> > code to address a security issue with the random driver for those
> > platforms which define get_cycles() to return zero all the time. The
> > most important p[latform for this is MIPS, since there are a lot of
> > home routers which use MIPS, but the full list is:
>
> But, what code is using that interface? Adding new features and
> interfaces is not for stable kernel releases, is it?
>
> If no one is using this new interface, why add it?
The code to use it is coming in the MIPS tree, and there was work that
I expect would use it for 68k tree coming soon. Since it was a more
substantial changes, I'm not surprised that it hasn't flowed into
mainline yet, but I expect that it would during the next merge window.
I pushed the interface pre-merge window due to the recent kvetching
over too many patches that were targetted for the stable kernel
showing up during the merge window. Since this was a low-risk patch,
I decided to push it to Linus early.
Regard,
- Ted
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