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| author | Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> | 2016-10-04 22:49:30 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2016-10-24 15:17:51 +0200 |
| commit | 6fbbcf38730210dc00123ad0188002189716169d (patch) | |
| tree | d4a446493f2869fe321194b9a3a6d6b235f1f715 /drivers/usb/misc/chaoskey.c | |
| parent | 054d4b7b577de6f5d25a0d443f0d59410bf156ad (diff) | |
hwrng: chaoskey - drop workaround for old hwrng core limitation
The hwrng core used to mask 'quality' with 1023; that has been removed
in commit 506bf0c0464ace57169aadcf02ae397999c57bdd ("hwrng: core - allow
perfect entropy from hardware devices"), so we can now just set quality
to 1024.
Signed-off-by: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/usb/misc/chaoskey.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/usb/misc/chaoskey.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/usb/misc/chaoskey.c b/drivers/usb/misc/chaoskey.c index 6ddd08a32777..aa350dc9eb25 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/misc/chaoskey.c +++ b/drivers/usb/misc/chaoskey.c @@ -215,19 +215,7 @@ static int chaoskey_probe(struct usb_interface *interface, dev->hwrng.name = dev->name ? dev->name : chaoskey_driver.name; dev->hwrng.read = chaoskey_rng_read; - - /* Set the 'quality' metric. Quality is measured in units of - * 1/1024's of a bit ("mills"). This should be set to 1024, - * but there is a bug in the hwrng core which masks it with - * 1023. - * - * The patch that has been merged to the crypto development - * tree for that bug limits the value to 1024 at most, so by - * setting this to 1024 + 1023, we get 1023 before the fix is - * merged and 1024 afterwards. We'll patch this driver once - * both bits of code are in the same tree. - */ - dev->hwrng.quality = 1024 + 1023; + dev->hwrng.quality = 1024; dev->hwrng_registered = (hwrng_register(&dev->hwrng) == 0); if (!dev->hwrng_registered) |