From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262714AbTLWTmL (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 14:42:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262725AbTLWTmL (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 14:42:11 -0500 Received: from havoc.gtf.org ([63.247.75.124]:18382 "EHLO havoc.gtf.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262714AbTLWTmJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 14:42:09 -0500 Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 14:42:09 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik To: Rob Love Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Greg KH , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [PATCH] add sysfs mem device support [2/4] Message-ID: <20031223194209.GA26278@gtf.org> References: <20031223002126.GA4805@kroah.com> <20031223002439.GB4805@kroah.com> <20031223002609.GC4805@kroah.com> <20031223131523.B6864@infradead.org> <20031223180127.GA14282@kroah.com> <20031223191634.A8914@infradead.org> <1072207183.6015.19.camel@fur> <20031223192226.A10239@infradead.org> <1072207555.6015.22.camel@fur> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1072207555.6015.22.camel@fur> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@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