Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | | Subject | Re: [patch 0/6] New Generic HW RNG (#2) | | Date | Sun, 7 May 2006 20:39:07 +0200 |
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On Sunday 07 May 2006 16:38, Michael Buesch wrote: > Second try. Various fixes included. This does even compile (and work) now. :) >
It would be good to give the patches more descriptive names, currently they all have the same subject lines, which is not really helpful.
> The userspace RNG daemon can later be updated to select the RNG through > /sys/class/misc/hw_random/ for convenience. For now it is sufficient to > use cat and echo -n on the sysfs attributes.
When you're making the behaviour of hw_random configurable, maybe you could also add an option to automatically use the current hw_random driver to feed the /dev/random entropy pool on systems where the administrator trusts its randomness.
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