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    random: Add support for architectural random hooks · 63d77173
    H. Peter Anvin authored
    
    
    Add support for architecture-specific hooks into the kernel-directed
    random number generator interfaces.  This patchset does not use the
    architecture random number generator interfaces for the
    userspace-directed interfaces (/dev/random and /dev/urandom), thus
    eliminating the need to distinguish between them based on a pool
    pointer.
    
    Changes in version 3:
    - Moved the hooks from extract_entropy() to get_random_bytes().
    - Changes the hooks to inlines.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
    Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
    Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
    Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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