From: Rob Love <rml@ximian.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.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 14:45:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1072208750.6987.4.camel@fur> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031223194209.GA26278@gtf.org>
On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 14:42, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 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.
s/the random number generator/the kernel's random number generator
(random.c)/
E.g., my point was that the device file was the user-space
representation of the kernel rng, so associating the kernel rng
attributes with the device file made sense. I did not mean to imply it
was the be-all and end-all of rng's on the machine.
Rob Love
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-23 19:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ 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
2003-12-23 19:45 ` Rob Love [this message]
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
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