linux-kernel - Re: Linux messages full of `random: get_random

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Date:   Thu, 26 Apr 2018 05:48:37 +0200
From:   Paul Menzel <pmenzel+linux-random-number@...gen.mpg.de>
To:     "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux messages full of `random: get_random_u32 called from`

Dear Theodore,

Am 25.04.2018 um 09:41 schrieb Theodore Y. Ts'o:
> Does this help on your system?

Thank you, after figuring out how to apply the paste, yes it helped on 
my Lenovo X60.

> commit 4e00b339e264802851aff8e73cde7d24b57b18ce
> Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
> Date:   Wed Apr 25 01:12:32 2018 -0400
> 
>      random: rate limit unseeded randomness warnings
>      
>      On systems without sufficient boot randomness, no point spamming dmesg.

I guess this is a problem with old hardware?

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Kind regards,

Pul