Re: [3.16.1 REGRESSION]: Simtec Entropy Key (cdc-acm) broken in 3.16

From: Oliver Neukum
Date: Fri Sep 05 2014 - 03:59:49 EST


On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 00:40 +0100, Nix wrote:
> I'm working around this confusing morass by rebooting into each test
> kernel, unplugging and replugging the entropy key if it was fubared,
> then rebooting into the same kernel again and seeing if it was still
> fubared. But this is not terribly fast, particularly not on a headless
> compact-flash-based Geode box which doesn't even complete booting
> without the entropy source which this bug cuts off :) so it'll be
> sometime tomorrow before I can get this bisection done, I'm afraid.

Ugh. My sympathies. I cannot suggest a better method, I am afraid.

Regards
Oliver


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