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Start the hwrng kthread even if the hwrng source has a quality setting of zero. Then, every crng reseed interval, one batch of data from this zero-quality hwrng source will be mixed into the CRNG pool. This patch is based on the assumption that data from a hwrng source will not actively harm the CRNG state. Instead, many hwrng sources (such as TPM devices), even though they are assigend a quality level of zero, actually provide some entropy, which is good enough to mix into the CRNG pool every once in a while. Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.