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Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 18:02:18 -0500 From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@...il.com> To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> Cc: Linux Kernel Developers List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, ewust@...ch.edu, zakir@...ch.edu, nadiah@...ucsd.edu, jhalderm@...ch.edu, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, stable@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/12] usb: feed USB device information to the /dev/random driver Hi, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > Send the USB device's serial, product, and manufacturer strings to the > /dev/random driver to help seed its pools. > > Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> > Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> > Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu> > Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org Why cc: stable@? Does this fix a build error, oops, hang, data corruption, real security issue, or other critical "oh, that's not good" bug? (I can imagine some reasons but I'm asking because it's not spelled out.) Thanks, Jonathan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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