Re: Please apply 50ee7529ec45 ("random: try to actively add entropy rather than passively wait for it") to 4.19.y

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 11:34 AM Noah Meyerhans noahm@debian.org wrote:

Added torvalds and tytso to the CC list. Linus and Ted, what do you think of the idea of applying 50ee7529ec45 ("random: try to actively add entropy rather than passively wait for it") to the 4.19.y and 4.14.y kernels?

By now I suspect it's the right thing to do. Nobody has complained about it, and it fixed real issues during boot.

Some of those real issues may have ended up being just unnecessary delays rather than complete lockups, but still..

Linus