Re: [PATCH] crypto: sun4i-ss: support the Security System PRNG

[Maxime Ripard]

On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 01:45:36PM +0200, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 11:59:47AM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 10:58:19AM +0200, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> > > The Security System have a PRNG, this patch add support for it via
> > > crypto_rng.
> > 
> > This might be a dumb question, but is the CRYPTO_RNG code really
> > supposed to be used with PRNG?
> > 
> 
> Yes, see recently added drivers/crypto/exynos-rng.c

It's still not really clear from the commit log (if you're talking
about c46ea13f55b6) why and if using the RNG code for a PRNG is a good
idea.

Maxime

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