Proposed F19 Feature: Virtio RNG

[Bill Nottingham]

Matthew Garrett (mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org) said: 
> This patchset means that there's a /dev/hwrng available in the guest, so 
> you still need to run something like rngd to mix that into the kernel's 
> entropy pool.

Speaking of, why is it a thing that we need a separate userspace daemon
to dump data from kernel bucket A (/dev/hwrng) into kernel bucket B
(the entropy pool)?

Bill