rtc: wm831x: Feed the write counter into device_add_randomness()
authorMark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Thu, 5 Jul 2012 20:19:17 +0000 (20:19 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 15 Aug 2012 19:04:28 +0000 (12:04 -0700)
commit2fcadd93622a8e130d98dd214aa75a17fc9b0ffc
treeadc1a2b3f57bcd6e9f24723dcf97d2cbd4795dca
parent0789520922496716eff4381e0ef724e66ead63e5
rtc: wm831x: Feed the write counter into device_add_randomness()

commit 9dccf55f4cb011a7552a8a2749a580662f5ed8ed upstream.

The tamper evident features of the RTC include the "write counter" which
is a pseudo-random number regenerated whenever we set the RTC. Since this
value is unpredictable it should provide some useful seeding to the random
number generator.

Only do this on boot since the goal is to seed the pool rather than add
useful entropy.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/rtc/rtc-wm831x.c