From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Rob Love <rml@ximian.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add sysfs mem device support [2/4]
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 14:42:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031223194209.GA26278@gtf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1072207555.6015.22.camel@fur>
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 02:25:56PM -0500, Rob Love wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 14:22, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> > Well, it's not just for /dev/random but also for all in-kernel cosumers
> > of random numbers, so doing this as a sysctl makes quite a lot of sense.
>
> And /dev/random is the user-space abstraction representing the random
> number generator...
Not precisely. If your userspace program can obtain random numbers in
some other way, it should... /dev/random shouldn't be considered as the
canonical source for random bits for the entire machine.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-23 19:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-23 0:21 [PATCH] some sysfs patches for 2.6.0 [0/4] Greg KH
2003-12-23 0:24 ` [PATCH] fix sysfs oops [1/4] Greg KH
2003-12-23 0:26 ` [PATCH] add sysfs mem device support [2/4] Greg KH
2003-12-23 0:28 ` [PATCH] add sysfs misc device support [3/4] Greg KH
2003-12-23 0:28 ` [PATCH] add sysfs vc device support [4/4] Greg KH
2003-12-23 13:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-12-23 0:29 ` [PATCH] add sysfs misc device support [3/4] Greg KH
2003-12-23 13:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-12-23 13:15 ` [PATCH] add sysfs mem device support [2/4] Christoph Hellwig
2003-12-23 15:31 ` Rob Love
2003-12-23 16:07 ` Rob Love
2003-12-23 16:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-12-23 17:56 ` Rob Love
2003-12-23 20:00 ` Stephan Maciej
2003-12-23 20:33 ` viro
2003-12-25 17:48 ` Andreas Jellinghaus
2003-12-25 18:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-12-25 19:41 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-12-25 20:57 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-12-25 22:02 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-12-26 16:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-12-26 16:54 ` Tomasz Torcz
2003-12-26 20:18 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-12-23 18:01 ` Greg KH
2003-12-23 19:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-12-23 19:19 ` Rob Love
2003-12-23 19:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-12-23 19:25 ` Rob Love
2003-12-23 19:42 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-12-23 19:45 ` Rob Love
2003-12-23 19:24 ` viro
2003-12-23 19:28 ` Rob Love
2003-12-23 11:07 ` [PATCH] some sysfs patches for 2.6.0 [0/4] Andreas Jellinghaus
2003-12-23 23:26 ` Greg KH
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-12-23 0:26 [PATCH] add sysfs mem device support [2/4] Greg KH
2003-12-23 13:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-12-23 15:31 ` Rob Love
2003-12-23 16:07 ` Rob Love
2003-12-23 16:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-12-23 17:56 ` Rob Love
2003-12-23 18:01 ` Greg KH
2003-12-23 19:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-12-23 19:19 ` Rob Love
2003-12-23 19:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-12-23 19:24 ` viro
2003-12-23 19:25 ` Rob Love
2003-12-23 19:28 ` Rob Love
2003-12-23 19:42 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-23 19:45 ` Rob Love
2003-12-23 20:00 ` Stephan Maciej
2003-12-23 20:33 ` viro
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