From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 19:42:09 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] add sysfs mem device support [2/4] Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id78&alloc_id371&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel