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SubjectRe: [PATCH] hw_random: add quality categories
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Michael Buesch wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 June 2007 16:06:25 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > Which, AFAIK, we can quantify as the minimum expected entropy in the output.
>
> The category is _not_ a measure of the entropy in the output.
> It is _just_ to get the chance to get a sane _default_ policy
> for which RNG is enabled by default, in the kernel.
> It's just about a default policy. _Nothing_ else.

Then why don't you call it "preference", or something to that effect?

--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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