[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/rng-tools: make jitterentropy conditional

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Weber <matthew.weber at rockwellcollins.com> writes:

 > Thomas,
 > On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 2:46 PM Matthew Weber
 > <matthew.weber at rockwellcollins.com> wrote:
 >> 
 >> Thomas,
 >> 
 >> On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 1:33 PM Thomas Petazzoni
 >> <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com> wrote:
 >> >
 >> > On Wed,  5 Feb 2020 12:26:08 -0600
 >> > Matt Weber <matthew.weber at rockwellcollins.com> wrote:
 >> >
 >> > > The update of rng-tools from 5 to 6.7 introduced a change where
 >> > > the jitterentropy library was enabled by default instead of
 >> > > returning a special 66 return code to hangle the case of no
 >> > > hwrng. This patch reverts that change and allows a user to
 >> > > select when to enable the jitterentropy source. The bug
 >> > > documents an issue of when a hwrng is enabled with jitterentropy
 >> > > there is a longer boot time.
 >> >
 >> > I don't understand this story of the 66 return code. Could you explain
 >> > a bit more ?
 >> 
 >> In Buildroot commit 22cb51e1 the systemd support addition included the
 >> successcode change based on the Fedora bugfix for ignoring if no hwrng
 >> is present (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=892178).

 > Ryan Barnett noticed that rng-tools dropped the special return code.
 > I guess we could just drop support for this special case as well....
 > https://github.com/nhorman/rng-tools/blob/v6.8/rngd.c#L805

Has that Fedora patch ever been included upstream? I don't seem to find
it in the history.

I btw see there is a 6.9 release with more bugfixes, care to send a
patch bumping the version?

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard