From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932212AbWEGSnQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 May 2006 14:43:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751232AbWEGSnQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 May 2006 14:43:16 -0400 Received: from static-ip-62-75-166-246.inaddr.intergenia.de ([62.75.166.246]:61908 "EHLO bu3sch.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751231AbWEGSnP (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 May 2006 14:43:15 -0400 From: Michael Buesch To: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [patch 0/6] New Generic HW RNG (#2) Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 20:50:01 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <20060507143806.465264000@pc1> <200605072039.08702.arnd@arndb.de> In-Reply-To: <200605072039.08702.arnd@arndb.de> Cc: akpm@osdl.org, Deepak Saxena , bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Sergey Vlasov MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200605072050.01719.mb@bu3sch.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday 07 May 2006 20:39, you wrote: > 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. How to do this with quilt? > > 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. This has been discussed and it is not desired behaviour. If you want to feed /dev/random, use rngd to read from /dev/hwrng, validate the data and put it into /dev/random. -- Greetings Michael.