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SubjectRe: [PATCH v5 1/5] random: Async and sync API for accessing nonblocking_pool
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 09:30:11AM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote:
>
> I will remove that in the next installment. But that means that the DRBG
> kernel module (or any other module) cannot be unloaded until the work
> completes.

I don't think that's a big deal.

> Are you suggesting to only leave get_blocking_random_bytes and have the caller
> implementing the appropriate synchronous wait or async work?

No there should just be a single interface where you feed it a
function pointer and a data pointer. This function should then
be called when the pool is ready.

Cheers,
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