Re: Linux messages full of `random: get_random_u32 called from`

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> Am 25.04.2018 um 09:41 schrieb Theodore Y. Ts'o:
> >Does this help on your system?
> 
> Thank you, after figuring out how to apply the paste, yes it helped on my
> Lenovo X60.
> 
> >commit 4e00b339e264802851aff8e73cde7d24b57b18ce
> >Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
> >Date:   Wed Apr 25 01:12:32 2018 -0400
> >
> >     random: rate limit unseeded randomness warnings
> >     On systems without sufficient boot randomness, no point spamming dmesg.
> 
> I guess this is a problem with old hardware?

Ok, I see it too, thinkpad x60.

But... this machine has spinning harddrive and independend RTC; there
really should be enough randomness...

Could we exploit either of them as randomness source when we run out
of entropy?

									Pavel
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