linux-kernel - Re: mfd: wm831x: Feed the device UUID into device_add

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Message-ID: <20120706212333.GA4877@thunk.org>
Date:	Fri, 6 Jul 2012 17:23:33 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc:	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	patches@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com
Subject: Re: mfd: wm831x: Feed the device UUID into device_add_randomness()

On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 08:23:21PM -0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> wm831x devices contain a unique ID value. Feed this into the newly added
> device_add_randomness() to add some per device seed data to the pool.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
> 
> add_device_randomness() has only just been added in -next, this will
> need to either wait until after the merge window or be merged along with
> the patch adding it.

Thanks, I've added this to the /dev/random git tree.

	     	   	       		   - Ted
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