From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751213AbWEGSjP (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 May 2006 14:39:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751221AbWEGSjP (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 May 2006 14:39:15 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.177]:40689 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751213AbWEGSjO (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 May 2006 14:39:14 -0400 From: Arnd Bergmann To: Michael Buesch Subject: Re: [patch 0/6] New Generic HW RNG (#2) Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 20:39:07 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: akpm@osdl.org, Deepak Saxena , bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Sergey Vlasov References: <20060507143806.465264000@pc1> In-Reply-To: <20060507143806.465264000@pc1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200605072039.08702.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:c48f057754fc1b1a557605ab9fa6da41 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday 07 May 2006 16:38, Michael Buesch wrote: > Second try. Various fixes included. This does even compile (and work) now. :) > It would be good to give the patches more descriptive names, currently they all have the same subject lines, which is not really helpful. > The userspace RNG daemon can later be updated to select the RNG through > /sys/class/misc/hw_random/ for convenience. For now it is sufficient to > use cat and echo -n on the sysfs attributes. When you're making the behaviour of hw_random configurable, maybe you could also add an option to automatically use the current hw_random driver to feed the /dev/random entropy pool on systems where the administrator trusts its randomness. Arnd <><