Re: [PATCH] tpm: Add module parameter for hwrng quality.

2018-07-17 Thread David R. Bild
On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 2:54 AM, Louis Collard wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 9:03 PM, David R. Bild wrote: >> As a point of clarification (and correct me if I'm wrong), the TPM is >> always ready used to seed the rng. It just doesn't update the entropy >>

Re: [PATCH] tpm: Add module parameter for hwrng quality.

2018-06-29 Thread David R. Bild
On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 1:11 AM, Louis Collard wrote: > > On some systems we have seen large delays in boot time, due to > blocking on a call to getrandom() before the entropy pool has been > initialized. On these systems the usual sources of entropy are not > sufficient to initialize the pool in

[PATCH] kbuild: clear KBUILD_SRC when calling 'make' in RPM spec

2013-01-12 Thread David R. Bild
From: "David R. Bild" 'make rpm-pkg' and 'make binrpm-pkg' fail when the kernel source is read-only. Specifically, when the RPM spec generated by scripts/package/mkspec is run, KBUILD_SRC happens to be set to the source location and thus the invocation of '