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From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hw_random: add quality categories
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:56:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200706271956.29244.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070627164041.GA6508@khazad-dum.debian.net>

On Wednesday 27 June 2007 18:40:41 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> There *is* a much better way to deal with it, though.  Add the fail always
> RNG device, and always select it by default.  Let the user specifically set
> which RNG he wants, and it now rates as "trusted", which is the only
> fail-proof way to go about it IMHO.

Well, but it changes ABI, which is forbidden.
After a kernel update your system will partially not work anymore.

-- 
Greetings Michael.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-27 17:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-24 13:55 [PATCH] hw_random: add quality categories Michael Buesch
2007-06-24 14:30 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-06-24 14:43   ` Michael Buesch
2007-06-25 23:21 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-26 13:56   ` Michael Buesch
2007-06-26  3:13 ` Matt Mackall
2007-06-26 14:06   ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-06-26 14:20     ` Michael Buesch
2007-06-27  2:00       ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-06-27 12:58         ` Michael Buesch
2007-06-27 16:40           ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-06-27 17:56             ` Michael Buesch [this message]
2007-06-28  7:57               ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-06-26 14:12   ` Michael Buesch
2007-06-26 14:32     ` Matt Mackall
2007-06-26 14:45       ` Michael Buesch
2007-06-27  3:18         ` Matt Mackall
2007-06-27 12:52           ` Michael Buesch

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