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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] random: fix add_hwgenerator_randomness entropy accounting
    Hi Jan,

    On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 5:29 PM Jan Varho <jan.varho@gmail.com> wrote:
    > I thought about doing it that way, but the return value allows
    > checking that any input was actually used instead of fast init
    > completing in the mean time.

    I'm not too worried about races here. If lots of things are fighting
    to inject entropy here, we're not in a starved situation. Also, the
    other callers aren't looking at the return value. Let's keep it
    simple; there's little harm in doing so in this instance.

    Jason

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