On Wed, 2013-02-27 at 10:43 +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Aurelien Jarno <aurel...@aurel32.net> writes:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have noticed that virtio-rng only returns zero for kernels >= 2.6.33
> > built with CONFIG_HW_RANDOM=m. This is a bit much too predictable for a
> > random generator ;-).
> 
> Wow.  Fortunately, all of SLES, RHEL, Ubuntu or Fedora set
> CONFIG_HW_RANDOM=y.  What do they know that we don't?
> 
> Oops, looks like Debian testing: config-3.2.0-4-amd64:CONFIG_HW_RANDOM=m
[...]

*Groan*.  I'll change the configuration for now, but trust this will be
fixed in virtio-rng later.  Thanks for letting me know.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Never attribute to conspiracy what can adequately be explained by stupidity.

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