Re: [PATCH 05/12] usb: feed USB device information to the /dev/random driver

2012-07-06 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 06:02:18PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> 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? > > All of the /dev/random patches in this patch serie

Re: [PATCH 05/12] usb: feed USB device information to the /dev/random driver

2012-07-06 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 06:02:18PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > 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? All of the /dev/random patches in this patch series that were marked for the stabl

Re: [PATCH 05/12] usb: feed USB device information to the /dev/random driver

2012-07-06 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 06:02:18PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > 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 > > Acked-by: Greg KH > > Signed-off-by: "Theodo

Re: [PATCH 05/12] usb: feed USB device information to the /dev/random driver

2012-07-06 Thread Jonathan Nieder
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 > Acked-by: Greg KH > Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" > Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org Why cc: stable@? Does this fix a build error